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The shift: From customer service to customer experience

Vonage

As scores of attendees packed the impressive all-glass venue in Midtown New York a small group of thought leaders kicked it off with an early morning breakfast to discuss AI, chatbots, omni-channel, and analytics for contact centers. The self-service model is going to prevail. It’s a no brainer.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Customer Service Trends 2017: An Effortless Customer Experience is Vital for Loyalty

Kayako

According to Forrester Research , “only 36% of contact centers have implemented multichannel integration to provide consistent experiences; 70% do not train agents to support multiple channels, and 56% do not offer an agent-facing knowledge management solution”. What goes into good self-service? Seven Help Centers we love.

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How are Omnichannel and Artificial Intelligence Changing Quality Management?

NICE inContact

The current decade has brought many changes to quality management, including the increase of treating customer interactions using omnichannel – the ability to handle queries flexibly across self-service and agent-assisted media channels with full context. Change Brought by Omnichannel Interactions.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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2019 predictions for ambitious contact centres

Vonage

Omni-Channel Design. Brands still struggle with the reality that omni-channel is about customer choice not cost reduction. Too many digital agendas still focus on deflection rather than meeting five generations of customer expectation around live assistance, self-service and being proactive.

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Self-Service Strategies for Elevating CX at Your Contact Centre

NICE inContact

In a way, self-service in the contact centre is kind of like a buffet: You need a strategy, or you might overeat or miss all the best dishes. It seems like self-service options are everywhere these days. And I know I am not the only fan of faster self-service. What’s your strategy? Many Options.

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2022 Contact Center Buyers' Guide

This guide covers: Omnichannel & Inbound. AI / Self-Service. This document will help you and your team narrow the field, with detail on the full impact your proposed CCaaS platforms can make on your operations, plus open-ended probing questions that get you better, more insightful responses than a simple “yes”. Agent Experience.

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How a Top 25 Most Trusted Brand Handed Their CX to AI

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Patty Kleinfeldt, Director of Q&E, AAA

One of the most trusted brands in the world, AAA, took the most critical aspect of their Customer Experience and handed it over to an AI-powered virtual agent for omnichannel self-service. In this webinar, we will hear from Brian Morin of SmartAction, and AAA's Q&E Director, Patty Kleinfeldt.

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Implementing Virtual Agents: Where to Start, and How to Finish

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

If this is a situation can you relate to, then join us for this in-depth conversation with TechStyle Fashion Group, as they openly discuss their decision to go virtual, and the challenges they faced along the way as they dabbled with both building the omnichannel self-service platform themselves, and outsourcing the design to a partner.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.