Upstream Works
MARCH 28, 2024
Our latest blog post explores three practical vertical use cases for video engagements in contact centers. The post 3 Use Cases for Video CX in the Contact Center appeared first on Upstream Works.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 26, 2024
Brand identity is fundamental to success, representing how consumers perceive and experience a company. Every interaction counts, and one frequently neglected yet vital touchpoint is the contact center. These centers, where customers engage with a company, hold significant influence over brand identity. Let’s explore how contact centers shape brand identity and why they’re essential for nurturing positive customer relationships. 1.
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Outsource Consultants
MARCH 27, 2024
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, Outsource Consultants wants to celebrate the incredible women leading the call center industry. Women have always been a driving force behind call center excellence, ( 71% of global employees are women ) — but this representation has not scaled as quickly at the ownership level. In 2024, expectations are that MORE women-owned call centers will gain client share because of the unique advantages clients are seeing by partnering with women-owne
CSM Magazine
MARCH 28, 2024
In the busy and sometimes stressful environment of a contact center, maintaining employee well-being is both a challenge and a necessity. Industry research indicates: 74% of call center agents are at risk of burnout due to high emotional labor. 91% of call center agents experience anxiety and other mental health issues. Forty-three percent of contact center staff are unhappy in their roles , and 35 percent are considering leaving their jobs in the next 12 months.
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24-7 InTouch
MARCH 27, 2024
What if, instead of coaching associates on their past mistakes, you could prevent those mistakes in real time? Introducing Sidd, Laivly’s virtual real-time AI assistant that guides associates through complex processes with best actions to take, checklists, and automated approvals. This agile technology integrates with your existing software using an augmented display screen overlay, moving from post-contact interactions to providing real-time coaching.
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AnswerConnect
MARCH 27, 2024
Could a business call forwarding service help grow your business? Our guide explores the what, how and why of call forwarding (with real examples of how it works). The post Can business call forwarding services grow small companies? appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.
Vistio
MARCH 25, 2024
As AI’s impact continues to ripple throughout virtually every industry, one area where artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a lot of optimizing is customer service, where CX leaders are imagining a world in which AI-powered chatbots can respond to any customer inquire through automated messaging services. But as many recent AI failures in the customer service world have illustrated, while such innovations hold great potential, they are not without their challenges and risks.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 29, 2024
Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent.
Global Response
MARCH 25, 2024
Excellent customer service aims to anticipate and meet needs before customers are even aware of them. You want to create a seamless, personalized experience. And the best way to do that is to start with a customer journey map. What is customer journey mapping? Customer journey mapping is a visual representation of every experience customers have with you.
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ShepHyken
MARCH 26, 2024
My friend Norman Beck recently shared a quote that inspired him: We work hard to make it look easy. Isn’t that what the best people do? Whether it’s sports, entertainment, or business, some people are so good that what they do looks easy. I Googled the quote to find out who to attribute it to and found numerous variations: In sports, Ken Griffey Jr., a professional baseball player, said, “Just because I made it look easy doesn’t mean that it was, and you don’t work hard and become a Hall of
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 29, 2024
Colin has been ghosted. He was surprised, considering he is married and has been for decades. However, his ghosting experience didn’t come from a romantic partner but a professional one. Since ghosting appears to be spreading into many interactions, we thought we should discuss it here. Ghosting, where someone suddenly stops communicating, has become more common, thanks to technology making it easier to cut off contact.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 28, 2024
Today, customers of all industries—whether it’s financial services, healthcare and life sciences, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, telecommunications, software as a service (SaaS), and even proprietary model providers—are using large language models (LLMs) to build applications like question and answering (QnA) chatbots, search engines, and knowledge bases.
ConvergeOne
MARCH 28, 2024
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) powered by GenAI stand out as two transformative forces. These technologies promise to revolutionize business models, accelerate operational efficiencies, and reimagine customer engagement strategies. We’ll dive deeper into these technologies, their significance for enterprises, and their potential impact across various industries.
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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.
ShepHyken
MARCH 25, 2024
Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Benefiting Customer and Employee Satisfaction by John Dijulius (The Dijulius Group) AI and Machine Learning (ML) are not only here, but if it’s not already a major part of your business strategy moving forward, you may be in danger of be
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 28, 2024
Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: “Colin, could you tell me the one thing that we need to do to improve our Customer Experience ?” This question is one that many of my clients want to ask me. They don’t say that in so many words, but effectively, that’s what they were asking me to do.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 28, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. These datasets encompass a broad range of topics and domains. Although the resulting models yield amazingly good results for general tasks, such as text generation and entity recognition, there is evidence that models trained with domain-specific datasets can further improve LLM
Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 26, 2024
A few months ago, I wrote about the security of AI models, fine-tuning techniques, and the use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in a Cisco Security Blog post.
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Comm100
MARCH 25, 2024
When it comes to designing chatbots, there are a few simple practices that separate helpful, high-performing bots from chatbots you’d rather see put out of their misery. Luckily for business owners and budding chatbot developers alike, launching a quality bot isn’t hard, as long as you know what to watch out for. Whether you’re planning a customer support chatbot for your website or building an engaging marketing bot for Messenger, being aware of the do’s and don’ts of bot planning and developme
Tethr
MARCH 27, 2024
Customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys are embedded into many CX programs, but are they effective? 4 CX leaders weigh in.
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 26, 2024
In today’s business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their financial processes, enhance efficiency, and drive cost savings. One area that holds significant potential for improvement is accounts payable. On a high level, the accounts payable process includes receiving and scanning invoices, extraction of the relevant data from scanned invoices, validation, approval, and archival.
Bill Quiseng
MARCH 27, 2024
You’ve heard of The Golden Rule: Treat people as you want to be treated. Dr. Tony Alessandra has shared with everyone about The Platinum Rule: Treat people as they want to be treated. Today I offer The QUI Rule also known as the GREAT Rule: Treat customers a little better than they want to be treated. You are happy because customers leave satisfied with your product or service.
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Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 29, 2024
Today’s complex hybrid cloud environments are often composed of solutions from multiple vendors and spread across multiple locations, making it challenging to smooth out application performance and a… Read more on Cisco Blogs
Outsource Consultants
MARCH 28, 2024
In the inaugural episode of The Bald + The Beard, hosts Tom Luther, Director of Channel Partnerships and Andrew Griffiths, VP of CX Partnerships and Outcomes , at Outsource Consultants, delve into the often misunderstood concepts of outsourcing and offshoring within the customer experience (CX) sector. Aiming to clarify common CX misconceptions, they discuss the sophisticated strategies that enhance and streamline operations across both domestic and international fronts Key Takeaways Outsourcin
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 27, 2024
In software engineering, there is a direct correlation between team performance and building robust, stable applications. The data community aims to adopt the rigorous engineering principles commonly used in software development into their own practices, which includes systematic approaches to design, development, testing, and maintenance. This requires carefully combining applications and metrics to provide complete awareness, accuracy, and control.
delighted
MARCH 28, 2024
With tens of thousands of customers using Surveys after our October 2023 launch, we’re incredibly excited to announce a pivotal enhancement to the product: AI Recommended Questions. As soon as you add at least two questions to your survey, Delighted’s AI Recommended Questions will suggest three other questions for you to consider. Powered by Qualtrics AI , AI Recommended Questions is the ultimate survey creation assistant.
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Cisco - Contact Center
MARCH 27, 2024
Many Cisco enterprise customers have decades of Cisco Catalyst routing and security capabilities functioning at branch locations.
Interactions
MARCH 28, 2024
39% of CX leaders polled by GDS state competing objectives and KPIs between departments within their organization as the reason their CX efforts are impeded. Amongst businesses, this remains a barrier to achieving CX excellence. Is it possible to navigate the strategic crossroads between pursuing quick wins and aiming for game-changing nirvana? The best and the brightest CX professionals joined a panel, including our very own Interactions CMO, Peter Mullen , to discuss the dilemma of opting for
AWS Machine Learning
MARCH 27, 2024
Amazon Titan lmage Generator G1 is a cutting-edge text-to-image model, available via Amazon Bedrock , that is able to understand prompts describing multiple objects in various contexts and captures these relevant details in the images it generates. It is available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions and can perform advanced image editing tasks such as smart cropping, in-painting, and background changes.
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