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B2B CX – Strategy & Business Alignment

ECXO

B2B CX – Strategy & Business Alignment Originally posted here with our full version: [link] Introduction A successful Customer Experience (CX) transformation program must be deeply integrated with the business strategy of an organization. Many companies fail at CX transformation because they treat it as an isolated initiative rather than embedding it into their core strategic goals.

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[Experience Action Podcast] CX Pulse Check – March 2025

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Healthcare and customer experience have more in common than you might think. Brian Carlson, VP of Patient Experience at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, joins Jeannie Walters for a CX Pulse Check to explore these fascinating parallels that are reshaping how we think about caring for patients. In this episode, they discuss: A patient satisfaction scoring storyline that provoked strong reactions on HBO’s new medical drama “The Pit” Lush’s bold decision to abandon socia

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Optimizing AI Agent Experiences: Leading Providers, Gaps, and Human Support Strategies

eglobalis

Optimizing AI Agent Experiences: Leading Providers, Gaps, and Human Support Strategies Introduction Artificial intelligence agents are rapidly transforming customer service and enterprise operations. Virtual assistants and chatbots now handle millions of banking inquiries, healthcare questions, and retail service requests, promising faster responses and 24/7 availability.

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9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance

Calabrio

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. But still, to focus too much on any one interaction is to miss the bigger pictureand the wider process thats behind them.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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6 Key Pizza Trends from the 2025 Pizza DELCO Report

IntouchInsight

Once upon a time, pizza ruled delivery. Back in the 1950s, a small family shop in Los Angeles started offering free delivery, setting the stage for what would become a game-changer in food service. By the early 90s, Pizza Hut made history by selling the first-ever product over the internet: pepperoni and mushroom pizza.

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AI That Sees, Solves, and Scales: The Future of Customer Service

TechSee

AI is changing the customer service game. For service leaders across nearly every industry, AI is the key to scaling smarter, driving revenue, and keeping customers loyal. AI is more than automation—intelligent decision-making transforms service operations. The AI Landscape for Service Leaders AI isn’t just another tool—it’s a force multiplier.

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Lesson #24 Revisited: Shorter surveys are usually better—but if it’s too short, it could come back to bite you

PeopleMetrics

The shorter your survey, the better your response rates will typically be. This is as true today as it was when I wrote Listen or Die in 2017. For that reason, super-short surveys are increasingly popular, often consisting of just one or two questions: the likelihood that the customer will recommend your company (NPS) and an open-ended "why?" follow-up.

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Customer Experience (CX) Analytics: A Complete Guide for 2025

Calabrio

Analytics Customer Experience (CX) Analytics: A Complete Guide for 2025 Share Today, the experiences businesses offer their customers before, during, and after purchase are every bit as important as the products and services they sell. Some might even say that CX is more important. And when research has found 86% of customers will pay a premium for better experiences, at least 1 in 3 will walk away from a brand they love after a single bad experience, and 70% think companies need to improve expe

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Accelerate AWS Well-Architected reviews with Generative AI

AWS Machine Learning

Building cloud infrastructure based on proven best practices promotes security, reliability and cost efficiency. To achieve these goals, the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides comprehensive guidance for building and improving cloud architectures. As systems scale, conducting thorough AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) becomes even more crucial, offering deeper insights and strategic value to help organizations optimize their growing cloud environments.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Managing Customer Experience Like a Pro: Inside a CX Manager’s Daily Workflow

Retently

Table of Contents Key Takeaways CX is a Business Strategy, Not a Support Function A Day in the Life of a CX Manager in Ecommerce Challenges & How to Overcome Them Conclusion: Why CX is the Secret to Ecommerce Success A great customer experience doesnt happen by accident it takes someone who understands customer needs, anticipates issues before they arise, and ensures every interaction feels seamless.

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How to Learn About Your Customers’ Complaints – Even When They Don’t Tell You

ShepHyken

How would you like to know what made a customer angry or sad, leading them to leave a negative review? You might say, Ill just ask them, and thats a great answer. Direct feedback is a gift. But maybe theres another way. I had a sit-down with Michael Podolsky, the CEO of PissedConsumer.com , a sounding board for consumers to leave comments and reviews when they cant get the customer service they want or deserve.

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25 actionable tips & 1 AI tool to increase online presence 

BirdEye

Increase online presence. That was Black Bear Diner s goal as a multi-location restaurant aiming to stand out among hungry diners. They followed the rulebooklaunched a website, created social media accounts, and ran paid ads. But the real challenge was turning scattered efforts into a unified, results-driven strategy. And rightly so, Black Bear Diner turned digital clicks into foot traffic.

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Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025

Calabrio

Analytics Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 Share Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 What area do you see as the biggest opportunity for growth in your contact center? A McKinsey survey revealed customer care leaders top growth priorities included customer experience improvement, technology implementation, and identifying revenue growth opportunities.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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Dynamic metadata filtering for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with LangChain

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) feature that connects large language models (LLMs) to internal data sources. Its a cost-effective approach to improving LLM output so it remains relevant, accurate, and useful in various contexts. It also provides developers with greater control over the LLMs outputs, including the ability to include citations and manage sensitive information.

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Lesson #23 Revisited: Survey Health is Everything—AI Enhances the Process, But Human Oversight Remains Critical

PeopleMetrics

If you are a CX or market research professional, your VoC programs successand likely your jobdepends on the health of your transactional surveys. So, you have mapped your touchpoints, conducted a relationship survey, piloted your transactional survey, and trained your key users. Now, the next big question is: are your surveys working? Even if youve got beautifully crafted questions, a low response rate or a confusing survey can derail everything.

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Understanding and Meeting Customer Expectations with the Help of AI with Alexandre (Alex) Hadade

ShepHyken

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: How can companies leverage artificial intelligence to improve customer experience? What challenges do businesses face in becoming truly customer-centric? How does AI compare to traditional surveys in measuring customer satisfaction? How can customer feedback effectively enhance products and services?

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Five Ways Your Customer Experience Is Always on Stage

The DiJulius Group

Your CX (Customer Experience) is always on stage. Today, too many companies think they are in a race to evolve their customer experience from costly human interactions to technology like self-check-in/out, apps, kiosks, social media, and online support. While these represent a necessary evolution for most business models, we must not send the message to.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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2025 Guide to the Omnichannel Contact Center: How to Drive Success with the Right Software, Strategy, and Solutions

Calabrio

Workforce Management 2025 Guide to the Omnichannel Contact Center: How to Drive Success with the Right Software, Strategy, and Solutions Share Calling, email, texting, instant messaging, social mediathe communication channels available to us today can seem almost endless. This proliferation has fundamentally reshaped how we interact, not just in our personal lives, but also in the world of business and service.

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Build a Multi-Agent System with LangGraph and Mistral on AWS

AWS Machine Learning

Agents are revolutionizing the landscape of generative AI , serving as the bridge between large language models (LLMs) and real-world applications. These intelligent, autonomous systems are poised to become the cornerstone of AI adoption across industries, heralding a new era of human-AI collaboration and problem-solving. By using the power of LLMs and combining them with specialized tools and APIs, agents can tackle complex, multistep tasks that were previously beyond the reach of traditional A

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How the 80/20 Rule, AI, and Leadership Drive Business Growth

Blake Morgan

Want to grow your business by focusing on what truly matters? The 80/20 rule helps leaders and customer experience professionals prioritize high-impact areas, maximize efficiency, and drive profitability. In this episode of The Modern Customer Podcast , I sit down with Bill Canady , CEO of OTC Industrial Technologies and Arrowhead Engineered Products , and author of From Panic to Profit , set to relea

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How to Improve Sales Performance and Drive Business Growth

Integrity Solutions

Improving sales performance is key to business growth, particularly in a constantly changing environment. Last year, Salesforce reported 67% of sales reps surveyed didn’t expect to meet their quota, and 84% missed it the previous year. Increased competition, shifting customer expectations, market volatility and other uncertainties mean there is always both an opportunity and a need to keep improving performance—among individual sellers and at the sales team level—to drive highe

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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The World’s Best Airports for Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

With travelers demanding seamless journeys and memorable experiences, airports have risen to the challenge, setting new standards in customer satisfaction. The Airports Council International (ACI) World , in partnership with Amadeus, recently unveiled the 2024 ASQ Airport Experience Awards winners. The awards recognize airports worldwide for their commitment to exceptional passenger experiences, based entirely on real-time feedback from travelers.

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What is first response time (FRT)?

Calabrio

Analytics What is first response time (FRT)? Share First Response Time (FRT) , also sometimes known as first reply time , is a critical customer service metric that measures the average time it takes for a contact center team to provide an initial response to a customer’s inquiry, whether it’s through email, chat, social media, or any other communication channel.

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Evaluate RAG responses with Amazon Bedrock, LlamaIndex and RAGAS

AWS Machine Learning

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionizing how Foundation Models (FMs) interact with organization-specific data. As businesses increasingly rely on AI-powered solutions, the need for accurate, context-aware, and tailored responses has never been more critical.

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News Alert: You're Not Customer-Centric

DCX

📌🚀Grab the Free CX Leader’s Guide to Organizational Buy-In Ready to cultivate a customer-obsessed culture? A CX Leader’s Guide to Organizational Buy-In is your playbook for ensuring that every department—customer service, sales, product, tech, finance, HR, and beyond—puts customers at the center of everything it does.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Proving AI’s ROI: How SAP Concur Transformed Customer Support & Reduced Costs

Blake Morgan

For many CX leaders, AI sounds promising, but proving its ROI is the real challenge. How do you measure its impact beyond automationensuring it reduces costs, enhances efficiency, and improves customer satisfaction? Thats exactly the challenge Michelle Lewis-Miller , Vice President, Head of Strategy & Transformation at SAP Concur, set out to solve.

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Customer Service Market Projected to Hit USD 800 Billion with 4.94% Annual Growth by 2035

CSM Magazine

Increasing adoption of AI-driven support solutions and omnichannel communication is transforming customer service experiences. According to a new report published by Market Research Future (MRFR), the Customer Service Market Size is anticipated to rise from USD 470.88 billion in 2024 to USD 800.0 billion by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 4.94% during the forecast period (20252035).

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How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition

Calabrio

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping. Next stepattrition. In a tight labor market, both your business and its customers cannot afford to lose agents.