
There are plenty of buzz-worthy discussions happening in the customer experience space around automation, artificial intelligence (AI), bots, and the like. But just because you can automate something, doesn’t necessarily mean you should.
By putting the customer experience at the center of the discussion, companies can balance humans with automation to optimize interactions.
Customer interactions are becoming more digitally driven and automated to enable faster, convenient, precise interactions. People want a different way to interact with the companies they do business with, and bots are one way to achieve this.
Customers don’t want call centers anymore. At least not the way they exist today. And companies continue to digitize interactions to reduce costs.
(Source: Conduent, Call Center IQ, Aspect)
Automated services are here to stay. So instead of "if," answer "how" to use automation in your business. As a guide, we recommend thinking in terms of "Big E" and "small e" experiences:
Bots can’t replace the human value of empathy, cross-selling, or up-selling during an interaction. They won’t know be able to read emotional signals to stave off customer defection. They don’t themselves build a brand. And they won’t know when to take the conversation in a different direction when things diverge from the norm or get complicated. When in doubt, people will prevail.
Read more best practices in automation from both the customer experience and operational perspectives, along with vertical-focused recommendations in the TeleTech Quarterly Insights e-book, "To Bot or Not to Bot."
Like this post? Subscribe to our customer experience blog.
Also, check out the most recent issue of our monthly customer experience eNewsletter, Dialogue.
Source: http://www.teletech.com/resources/blog/beyond-bot-buzz-balance-humans-and-automation
Publish Date: June 2, 2017 5:00 AM |
4.) | Consilium Software Consilium UniChAI™ Contacting customer service can often be a challenging experience with waiting on hold forever being one of the top reasons for client dissatisfaction. Furthermore, repeating information that was already provided to a chat agent, and generally spending too much time getting answers to questions can all lead to a lengthy, and often frustrating, customer journey. With unlimited scalability, enterprise-level security, and best-in-class data privacy features, UniChAI™ is a conversational AI platform which is playing an important role in improving some of these aspects of customer experience (CX) through chatbots – which are intelligent and natural-language virtual assistants meant to augment a c... (read more) PH: (+61) 406 501 368 |
6.) | Daisee Daisee Daisee builds technology that empowers people to solve problems by making interactions simple and smart so they can have a more significant impact, be more productive and be better at what they do. We believe incremental improvements carry huge potency and provide exponentially greater change for the better. Genesys customers can now automate risk and quality management using Daisee’s speech and sentiment analytics and remediation workflow software. Daisee helps improve customer experience, ensure regulatory compliance, identify missed commercial opportunities & training requirements as well as provide valuable insights back to the business directly from the frontline – the true voice-of-... (read more) PH: +61404697151 |
11.) | Koopid KoopidAI Most customer-facing interfaces make it the end user’s job to figure out how to navigate and find their way to where they need to be. This is true of websites and mobile apps as much as it of touch-tone IVRs. The interface is usually designed for the most generic of uses; and because making changes is expensive and time-consuming, these interfaces tend to be inflexible with regards to evolving times, use cases or user needs. AI can help create user interfaces that are adaptable and personalized. Advances in Conversational AI make it possible to interact with the user in natural language. Many IVRs are being re-configured to work this way and businesses are also introducing text-based cha... (read more) PH: 0800 999 1882 |
14.) | MFE International Oracle Digital Assistant The next generation state-of-the-art text and voice AI Chatbot . No coding required. Reduce call volumes by 30-60%. Reduce waiting times |
16.) | OpsTel Services SPEED & PLUS The SPEED solution solves for service level issues while cost optimizing the environment with automation. Provides an enhanced way to speed up & optimize invoking temporary agent skills configuration changes into the contact center environment. Speed allows you to schedule both future changes & temporary changes that auto-revert back to the original state when scheduled time expires. Speed features: *Automated / Scheduled Temporary Agent Skills Configuration Management *Immediate Temporary or Reoccurring Schedule Skills Configuration Changes *Easy to Use/Operations Administration Focused *Descriptive Monitoring Activity Dashboard *Detailed “End to End’ Audit Trail and Perfor... (read more) PH: 1+480-435-9390 |
18.) | Summatti Analysis that empowers your business Get actionable insights from all your customer interactions |
Beyond the Bot Buzz: Balance Humans and Automation | June 2, 2017 5:00 AM |
3 Steps to Harness the Power of Advanced Contact Center Analytics | February 13, 2017 5:00 AM |
Is it Time to Toss Average Handle Time? | November 10, 2016 5:00 AM |
Greet, Love, Engage: Three Paths to a Stress-Free Live Chat Experience | August 12, 2016 5:00 AM |
Getting the Most From Customer Surveys | July 21, 2016 5:00 AM |
5 Customer Experience Metrics to Track | June 1, 2016 5:00 AM |
The Ins and Outs of Creating Closed Loops | May 19, 2016 5:00 AM |
Customers Don’t Care About Your Quality Assurance Checklists | May 2, 2016 5:00 AM |
Answer Why Questions in the Contact Center to Improve Operations | March 14, 2016 5:00 AM |
TeleTech Research Shines Light on Gaps Between Consumers and Brands | January 21, 2016 5:00 AM |