TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At first glance, chatbots and Agentic AI may seem similar—both engage with users and provide automated responses. However, fundamental differences set Agentic AI apart from traditional chatbots, even those powered by large language models (LLMs). Let’s unpack these new technologies. If there were an MMA match, chatbots vs. agentic AI, where would each of them excel, or how would their approaches to your CX challenges differ?

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SQM Group

OCTOBER 2, 2024

7 actionable tips to boost the competency of your call center agents.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Discover how poorly managed contact center QA programs can lead to significant fines and legal actions. This article is the second in a series exploring the risks of substandard contact center QA practices. Avoiding Compliance Pitfalls: How Robust Contact Center QA Can Protect Your Business As a Contact Center Quality Leader in a regulated industry, I quickly learned to appreciate the extensive reach of the law.

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Calltools

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Offering a great customer experience (CX) is a key for any successful business. But delivering excellent CX can be challenging and costly. For call centers, it takes ongoing tool evaluations, training programs, and fine-tuned processes to deliver a fantastic experience for customers while keeping expenses low and staff spirits high. So, how can you guarantee customer satisfaction at the end of every call?

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Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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TCN

OCTOBER 2, 2024

With so many distractions in today’s contact center environment, the already-difficult challenge of maintaining agent engagement and efficiency has grown all the more difficult. But without engaged agents, both your customer satisfaction and your overall business success can suffer. But the good news is there are strategies to keep your contact center agents motivated, supported […] The post How to Keep Your Contact Center Agents Engaged and Efficient appeared first on TCN.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 4, 2024

One of the benefits of being in business and academia for years is that we have a lot of experience running workshops. This episode is a brain dump of all the stuff you won’t learn in a book but is critical to the successful outcome of your program. The first and perhaps most critical step is breaking the ice. By setting a relaxed and open tone, you ease participants into the session, ensuring they’re ready to engage.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Large enterprises are building strategies to harness the power of generative AI across their organizations. However, scaling up generative AI and making adoption easier for different lines of businesses (LOBs) comes with challenges around making sure data privacy and security, legal, compliance, and operational complexities are governed on an organizational level.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In today’s tech-savvy world, customer expectations for service efficiency are higher than ever. Traditional support methods are struggling to keep pace with rising demands, but visual service and artificial intelligence (AI) are stepping up to transform customer experiences (CX) across various industries. In this blog, we explore the role of generative AI in CX and how these cutting-edge technologies are redefining CX in the telecom, smart home, home security, and consumer electronics indu

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2024

If you’re reading this article the day it comes out, then next week – the first full week of October – is Customer Service Week. This special week was created in the 1980s when the International Customer Service Association suggested that organizations should recognize the employees who create the experience that gets customers to say, “I’ll be back.

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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: One of our podcast listeners has a pickle. Claire Dunwood wrote to us to say she felt that her customers’ expectations consistently rise, and managing them is challenging in that she now has fewer resources to devote to them.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Personalization can improve the user experience of shopping, entertainment, and news sites by using our past behavior to recommend the products and content that best match our interests. You can also apply personalization to conversational interactions with an AI-powered assistant. For example, an AI assistant for employee onboarding could use what it knows about an employee’s work location, department, or job title to provide information that is more relevant to the employee.

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Connect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

By Charlene George, Sales Director at Connect SA Amid the intense competition of today’s market, delivering exceptional customer experience (CX) is mission-critical for companies that want to attract new customers and retain them throughout the customer lifecycle. Crafting a frictionless customer journey, characterised by ease of use, seamless interactions across channels, and memorable customer service that delights, is the cornerstone of customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. CX Day: Better Outcomes for Everyone by Lynn Hunsaker (CustomerThink) CX Day is a highlight of the year, celebrating customers, CX professionals, and CX outcomes.

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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.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 3, 2024

With cyber threats on the rise and the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it couldn’t be a better time to elevate your skill set to meet attacks head-on—and defend, detect, and protect your data and networks.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the generative AI era, agents that simulate human actions and behaviors are emerging as a powerful tool for enterprises to create production-ready applications. Agents can interact with users, perform tasks, and exhibit decision-making abilities, mimicking humanlike intelligence. By combining agents with foundation models (FMs) from the Amazon Titan in Amazon Bedrock family, customers can develop multimodal, complex applications that enable the agent to understand and generate natural languag

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delighted

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Ecommerce trends significantly influence online shopping, affecting everything from where potential customers discover your products or services to how they engage with your brand. Understanding these emerging trends can help you pinpoint areas of your strategy that may need updates to remain competitive. From artificial intelligence to augmented reality, social media shopping to subscriptions, here are the 10 trends shaping online retail right now: Artificial intelligence is transforming the on

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    How is AI transforming both employee and customer experiences? Can AI be utilized effectively in smaller companies with limited budgets? How does AI improve efficiency and productivity for customer service teams? What is the impact of AI on employee retention?

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In their book, The Experience Economy, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore define that “Work is theater and every business a stage.” If you were an actor delivering a great live theatrical performance, the audience becomes wrapped up in the experience and as they walk out of the theater, they are telling their friends that it was the best thing that they’ve enjoyed in a long time.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Building intelligent agents that can accurately understand and respond to user queries is a complex undertaking that requires careful planning and execution across multiple stages. Whether you are developing a customer service chatbot or a virtual assistant, there are numerous considerations to keep in mind, from defining the agent’s scope and capabilities to architecting a robust and scalable infrastructure.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 2, 2024

With effective monitoring into endpoint activity, threats to the network can be detected and neutralized before causing extensive damage.

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Joe Rawlinson

OCTOBER 2, 2024

You provide company cars to employees for a specific reason: they should use the vehicles to complete the required work tasks. For example, you run a delivery business, and you provide cars, vans, and trucks for drivers to load up and take orders to customers. You could also have some company cars for people to drive to meetings as a way of keeping up appearances.

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In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 1, 2024

content Lumoa Product News for August 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Actionable Insights have been overhauled! We originally offered lots of different Insights types, but we received long term feedback that customers were unsure of the differeneces between the Insights, and when one would be more applicable than the other

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This post was co-written with Anthony Medeiros, Manager of Solutions Engineering and Architecture for North America Artificial Intelligence, and Adrian Boeh, Senior Data Scientist – NAM AI, from Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric is a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation. The company specializes in providing integrated solutions that make energy safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

On the first night of BlackHat USA, I made conversation with a few friendly penetration testers who were perplexed when I told them I was a developer. Why would I be at a cybersecurity conference? …What was I hoping to get out of it?

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24-7 InTouch

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Engaging with online reviews holds immense value for brands to foster connections and establish a positive reputation with their customers. It is through these responses that trust is built, loyalty is nurtured, and authenticity is showcased. However, many brands struggle to keep up with the sheer volume of reviews while maintaining personalization and consistency—critical components of a strong online presence.

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Outsource Consultants

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Nestled in Central America, Guatemala is a country rich in history, culture, and natural beauty. Bordering Mexico to the north and Belize to the east, Guatemala offers a unique blend of Mayan heritage and Spanish colonial influence. Beyond its cultural significance, Guatemala is emerging as a compelling destination for outsourcing. With a growing pool of skilled talent, competitive labor costs, and a favorable business environment, this Central American nation is attracting the attention of glob

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Over the last 18 months, AWS has announced more than twice as many machine learning (ML) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) features into general availability than the other major cloud providers combined. This accelerated innovation is enabling organizations of all sizes, from disruptive AI startups like Hugging Face, AI21 Labs, and Articul8 AI to industry leaders such as NASDAQ and United Airlines, to unlock the transformative potential of generative AI.

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Cisco - Contact Center

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Passwords are a problem and it’s hard to make a good one. So what can you do? Make them long, make them random, and maybe use a password manager.

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