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2021: Emerging AI trends in the telecom industry

TechSee

billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 43.6%. Integrating visual support within IVR further delivers an efficient usage of time – reducing average handling times (AHT) and customer hold times, and ultimately driving a better CX. billion in 2016 to $17.67 The driver for this growth? Artificial intelligence (AI).

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3 Drivers of CX Success in 2021

Upstream Works

The below three drivers of CX success will help to keep customer loyalty strong as we move into 2021. A distributed workforce at scale will be viewed as the norm going into 2021. For example, with customers feeling more stress, legacy metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) aren’t going to drive CSAT scores.

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Live Chat KPIs are Essential – But How Can You Get Agents Onboard?

Comm100

Average handling time (AHT): How long it takes your agents to finish a single chat with a single customer is a helpful metric to track, but it’s important to dig deeper to discover why handling times are longer or shorter than expected. Read our Live Chat Benchmark Report 2021 for more insight on AHT.

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The 3 Principles of Brand Loyalty in a Highly Disruptive World

BlueOcean

Following the 2021-2023 supply chain crisis, today’s consumers are no strangers to empty shelves. We’ve written before about the changes in consumer behaviours and the impact on customer care – from fluctuations in arrival patterns to dynamic average handle times.

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Top 5 Conversational Automation Considerations for Healthcare CX Providers

Uniphore

By automating mundane tasks—like manual data entry and after-call work (ACW)—conversational automation can eliminate lengthy hold times and time-consuming call summarizations, freeing employees to focus more on what matters: member experience. Source: HealthPayerIntelligence, September 2021. That’s a serious improvement.

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How to Measure the Success of your Live Chat Customer Support Team

Comm100

See how you stack up: Comm100’s 2021 Benchmark Report found that the average live chat customer satisfaction (CSAT) rate increased by 1.5% from 2019 to 2020, hitting an all-time new benchmark peak of 85.6%. . Average resolution time. These can be timed and appropriately factored into the overall number.

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3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn

Uniphore

While numbers, like Average Handle Time (AHT), are convenient units of measurement, they make poor coaching tools, offering little actionable advice and alienating agents who feel they’re being “set up to fail.” How to Train and Onboard Agents in 2021. Don't Coach to a Number.