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Why the Contact Center Experience Is So Important

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The contact center experience can make or break your customer’s overall experience with your organization. Specifically, negative experiences can cause customers to churn, while positive experiences can restore customer satisfaction trust, and improve your brand equity. What Is a Contact Center Experience? Where a customer experience is defined as how customers feel about their collective experiences and interactions with a company, the contact center experience encompasses how customers f

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Why Europe and the UK Are Always Behind the USA in Customer Experience

eglobalis

Customer experience (CX) has become a critical differentiator in today’s competitive market, influencing customer loyalty and overall business success. While the USA leads in delivering superior customer experiences, Europe and the UK often lag behind. This article explores the reasons behind this disparity, examining factors such as cultural differences, investment levels, regulatory environments, and innovation adoption rates.

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Evaluate conversational AI agents with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents gain traction across industries, providing reliability and consistency is crucial for delivering seamless and trustworthy user experiences. However, the dynamic and conversational nature of these interactions makes traditional testing and evaluation methods challenging. Conversational AI agents also encompass multiple layers, from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to function-calling mechanisms that interact with external knowledge sources

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Customer Segmentation & NPS: Get Deeper Insights from Your NPS Data

Zonka Feedback

Explore how to use NPS customer segmentation to understand your customers better. Gather effective insights from your NPS survey and enhance customer experience.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Find answers accurately and quickly using Amazon Q Business with the SharePoint Online connector

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that helps enterprises unlock the value of their data and knowledge. With Amazon Q, you can quickly find answers to questions, generate summaries and content, and complete tasks by using the information and expertise stored across your company’s various data sources and enterprise systems.

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Node problem detection and recovery for AWS Neuron nodes within Amazon EKS clusters

AWS Machine Learning

Implementing hardware resiliency in your training infrastructure is crucial to mitigating risks and enabling uninterrupted model training. By implementing features such as proactive health monitoring and automated recovery mechanisms, organizations can create a fault-tolerant environment capable of handling hardware failures or other issues without compromising the integrity of the training process.

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The customer isn’t always right – Interview with Daphne Costa Lopes of Hubspot

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Daphne Costa Lopes, Global Director of Customer Success at HubSpot. Daphne joins me today to talk about customer success, why the customer […] The post The customer isn’t always right – Interview with Daphne Costa Lopes of Hubspot first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Revolut Secures Its Banking License – Crowning A Decade Of Digital Banks

Forrester's Customer Insights

Digital banks are gaining traction among consumers, globally. Learn what incumbent banks should do to compete.

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What is Customer Sentiment Analysis?

Feedbackly

Customer sentiment analysis remains a core element of feedback management for brands because it gives you critical insight into how your customers regard your brand and the product. It also helps you go deeper with your interpretations to understand your customer preferences and behavioral trends. Paired with other KPIs like EVI®, NPS, and CES, sentiment analysis can prove to be a critical tool for you to optimize the use of feedback, convert it to actionable information, and tailor your busines

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

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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NPS Q&A Part 1: Controversy, Fit And Alternatives

Forrester's Customer Insights

Net Promoter Score (NPS) reminds me of the apricot tree on the side of our house. It sometimes disappoints us – like this year when it carried exactly one (!) fruit.

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Meeting With an LMS Vendor? Ask Them These 5 Questions

Gainsight

A quick Google search will return a seemingly endless list of LMS vendors and make to make it even more confusing, many of them offer different features and have different value props (i.e., one is more positioned for customer education while the other is primed for employee training). Needless to say, picking a learning management system (LMS) can seem like a daunting task, which means you’re probably setting up meetings with more than a few vendors.

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10 Ways Quality Teams Use AI to Enhance Testing

Centercode

We talked to QA leaders and here's how their teams are using AI to enhance their productivity and reach.

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Myths About Workplace Culture

ImprintCX Articles

As published In Fast Company July 16, 2024 Lior Arussy is chairman and co-founder of ImprintCX, and author of the upcoming book Dare to Author! Many leaders have a tough time accepting that it’s up to their employees to bring the most critical assets to an organization—creativity, compassion, innovation, ownership, and outside-the-box thinking. Culture drives employee performance As a manager, you can force those behaviors by creating key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

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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Perkville Referrals: CASL Compliance for Your Business

Perkville

Learn how Perkville's referral features help businesses comply with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) while growing their customer base.

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How Can Technology Improve Business Operations?

CSM Magazine

For many businesses, daily operations can feel like a complex puzzle with ever-shifting pieces. Tasks pile up, communication gets bogged down, and valuable insights remain hidden. Fortunately, the answer to these challenges might lie right at your fingertips: technology. This article will explore the transformative power of technology in streamlining business operations, from automating repetitive tasks to improving customer experiences.

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Redefining Customer Feedback: Embracing Comprehensive Metrics for Accurate Sentiment Analysis

Think Customers

By Ricardo Saltz Gulko This article is published through a partnership with the European CX Organisation (ECXO). Read the original here. Introduction The Net Promoter Score (NPS) has long been a widely used metric for assessing customer loyalty, satisfaction, and the potential for customer churn as a relationship and transactional metric. Despite its widespread use across various industries, NPS has come under scrutiny for not providing a holistic view of the customer experience.

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Creating a Culture of Safety: Integrating Industrial Hygiene and Emergency Management

CSM Magazine

Creating a culture of safety in the workplace is essential for protecting employees and ensuring smooth operations. Integrating industrial hygiene and emergency management can be the cornerstone of this culture. These two disciplines, though distinct, complement each other to form a robust safety net. Industrial hygiene focuses on recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace hazards, while emergency management prepares for, responds to, and recovers from incidents.

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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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Strategic Services Global Trend Round Up: 25th July 2024

Lithium

Discover the latest TikTok trends and world events on this week's trend report!

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Wasn’t Generative AI Supposed To Disrupt Business Intelligence?

Forrester's Customer Insights

Generative AI was supposed to disrupt how we analyze data using BI tools. Find out why that hasn't happened yet.

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Understanding the value of customer feedback systems for grocery stores

Happy or Not

Understanding customers’ needs and experiences is crucial. One of the best ways to appreciate these is to obtain information using customer feedback systems. These systems are essential in refining customer experience management , providing actionable insights that drive improvements across various aspects of grocery store operations. The fundamental benefits of customer feedback systems Customer feedback systems have many crucial benefits for grocery store management.

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Salesforce makes moves into back office with a strategic Workday partnership

Forrester's Customer Insights

Salesforce and Workday announced a strategic partnership to blend customer, financial and employee data in a shared data foundation that negates the need to duplicate data or build custom integration. The result? Optimized employee and customer experiences that up-level business outcomes for joint Salesforce-Workday customers. The strategic objective?

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.

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B2B Summit APAC 2024: Transform Your Revenue Engine

Forrester's Customer Insights

All good things must come to an end. The B2B revenue engines we constructed and operated over the past couple decades served us well, but they’re showing their age. As they confront increasingly demanding, younger and more impatient customers, they buckle.

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Participate in Forrester’s 2024 State of ABM Survey

Forrester's Customer Insights

Forrester’s biennial State of ABM survey is back, and we’re inviting you to participate! Everyone who completes the survey will gain access to the latest trends regarding the current state of ABM and how their peers are focusing their efforts.

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Learnings From Our Cloud Cost Management Forrester Wave, Q3 2024

Forrester's Customer Insights

At long last, the The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization (CCMO), Q3 2024 is published! The process is incredibly long and thorough. We go through hours long briefings, customer calls, and perform multiple iterations on scoring. Vendors go through the same.

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NPS Q&A Part 2: Financial Linkage, Targets, Benchmarking

Forrester's Customer Insights

I compared Net Promoter Score (NPS) to our apricot tree in my blog NPS Q&A Part 1: Controversy, Fit And Alternatives: Both sometimes disappoint but both have been around for a while, our landlords (your execs) have the final say on using it, and replacing either is a bet with an uncertain outcome.

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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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Viele Umfragen, wenig Wirkung: Forrester-Umfrage 2023 „State of VoC & CX Measurement“

Forrester's Customer Insights

Die Ergebnisse der Forrester-Umfrage „2023 State of VoC and CX Measurement Practices“ liegen vor. Sie zeigen einige anhaltende Trends - und einige interessante Verschiebungen.

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Converging Platforms for Greater Efficiency: The Rise of Revenue Marketing Platforms

Forrester's Customer Insights

As someone who has spent years analyzing and covering the B2B marketing technology landscape – first as a buyer and user and now as a Forrester analyst — I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges marketing organizations face with maintaining separate engagement platforms.