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Article : The Global Community

Modern telecommunication and the adaptation of VoIP have pushed the boundaries of customer service to a global level. There is no way to tell if the person we are speaking to might actually be thousands of miles away when calling for service or information. But can the multitude of diverse cultures make a difference in the service we receive?

Greg Beaver
Vice President Customer Services
United States

"I have noticed a hue difference. I always make a point of asking call center associates the location of thir center and they always tell me. I have noticed eastern countries seem to have a more "automated" tone and approach to trying to be friendly and engaging. The typical, Thank you Mr. X and how is the eather n X," seems very insincere. When there are problems there seems to be a lack of empathy and sincerity and it has the feel of a cold experience. Apologies seem hollow and the escalation is never an easy process. I do not for one minute believe the individual is any less capable but voice inflection and manerisms do not give me thefeeling the company really cares about me as a customer."

 
Ciara Coghlan
Customer Care Manager
eir
Ireland

"Nothing noticeable"

About eir

Eircom Limited, trading as Eir, is a fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland, and a former state-owned monopolist. It is the largest telecommunications operator in the Republ... (read more)
 
Graham Kingma
Vice President Customer Experience
The Shopping Channel
Canada

"In my opinion the service provided by an agent has very little to do with their culture. It has everything to do with the level of engagement of the people providing the service. These levels of engagement can be high or low regardless of the cultural background. The idea that someone from India provides worse service that from someone down the street is a myth. Engagement, training and proper access to solution oriented tools are key to good service, not culture."

About The Shopping Channel

The Shopping Channel is a Canadian TV shopping network that offers a wide range of products in different categories like gifts, fashion, health & beauty, Jewellery, electronics, as seen on TV products... (read more)
 
Jeffrey Folkins
Sales Agent
Bell Aliant
Canada

"I find in the last five years that the customer service has improved greatly from what it had been. The agents are much more courteous and more informed on the products that they sell."

About Bell Aliant

Bell Aliant is one of North America’s regional telecommunications providers, serving a population of 5.3 million Canadians. Bell Aliant was created by joining Bell Canada’s regional wireline busines... (read more)
 
JoAnna Brandi
President
Return on Happiness
United States

"Yes. We all come to an experience with our history. In lieu of being trained continually in the company culture and how the company wants us to represent it, we revert to what we brought to the party. Different cultures have different attitudes towards service and customers. I won't generalize here, but I will say that it's critical to know what kind of customer experience you'd like your company to be known for and be sure to hire and train in alignment with that. Otherwise, you get what you get."

About Return on Happiness

JoAnna Brandi & Company provides customer retention and loyalty has been in business since 1990. JoAnna specializes in creating positive cultures and brings the Science of Happiness into the workplace... (read more)
 
Grace Heny
Director
168Solution
Indonesia

"Yes and no. I believe everybody require first resolution as the main expectation, but soft skill and courtesy is very vary widely from one culture to another."

About 168Solution

168Solution is a leading Consulting and Training of Contact Center, with proven approach and experience in Contact Center or known as Digital Interaction for Inbound and Outbound, Voice, Email and alt... (read more)
 
Jerry Farrell
Customer Service Operations Manager
Fresenius Medical Care
United States

"I have had several calls recently with agents from American Express, and it's obvious the call center is in India. When dealing with cultures unfamiliar with my own, there is a lack of awareness of what is important to me based on the vocabulary and voice tones I choose, and there is a total lack of sincerity in a monotone scripted apology that disturbs me even more."

About Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care is a large integrated provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis because of chronic kidney failure, a condition that affects more than 1,770,000 indiv... (read more)
 
John MacDaniel
Sr. Director, VOC/Digital
C3i Solutions
United States

"Mexican-Americans tend to be more service oriented than Euro-centric Americans. I find I.T. support from India and the Philippians to be friendly although sometime the language barrier is difficult."

About C3i Solutions

Telerx, headquartered in Horsham, PA, is a leading provider of customer care solutions. From its contact centers in Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, Canada, the Philippines, Europe and Latin Ameri... (read more)
 
Mark Weingarten
Assistant Vice President Customer Service and Operations
ivci
United States

"Cultures can play a part but in the U.S. I think most are aware of custom and do a decent job in responding appropriately."

About ivci

IVCi provides services related to HD video conferencing system, state-of-the-art telepresence technology, an integrated audio visual solution, managed conferencing services, audio and Web conferencing... (read more)
 
Steven McKenzie
Head of Customer Care
Siemens Australia Ltd
Australia

"I have just completed 3 weeks in New Zealand and found all the people that I have dealt with (primarily from the tourism industry) to be genuinely passionate about making the touring experience as positive as possible. I believe that in all cultures there are people who have a passion for what they do and the important thing is to find those people."

About Siemens Australia Ltd

Unify—formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications—is one of the world’s largest communications software and services firms. Our solutions unify multiple networks, devices and applications into... (read more)
 
Ajay Nambiar
Head - Customer Relations
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd.
India

"asians are far more subservient and service ready than europeans or americans"

About Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd.

Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd., (MHRIL) a part of the Infrastructure Sector of the Mahindra Group, brings to the industry values such as Reliability, Trust and Customer Satisfaction. Started i... (read more)
 

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Today's Tip of the Day - Customers Wary Of Fraud Calls

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Published: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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2023 Buyers Guide Automation

 
1.) Agara

Agara is an autonomous virtual voice agent powered by Real-time Voice AI. It is designed to have intelligent conversations with your customers, vendors, and partners without any assistance from human agents. It can handle a wide variety of calls including inbound customer care calls, outbound lead generation calls, appointment scheduling calls, and overdue payment recovery calls.

Agara is available for several industries including banking, insurance, retail, e-commerce, airlines, and telecom. Powered by advanced Real-time Voice AI that understands speech in real-time, automatically determines the right process to follow and guides the caller along in the process with natural conversation.

2.) 
Auraya

EVA Voice Biometrics
Powered by Auraya's patented ArmorVox engine, EVA is a voice biometric extension that provides secure and seamless identification & verification capabilities for Amazon Connect. EVA provides delightful customer experience by removing the friction of providing PINs, passwords or secret information in order to prove caller identity. EVA comes standard with active and passive modes and a simple yet powerful agent interface. This allows for personalised self-service and a more friendly and efficient experience when interacting with an agent.

Outdated security methods such as PINs, passwords and security questions have become insecure and unreliable. Forgetting passwords and security answers o...
(read more)

3.) 
Call Adapt

Soundboard Software
Call Adapt is a cloud-based digital soundboard application designed for contact centers. It works with any type of call and integrates with your existing dialer system. Powered by smart audio technology, Call Adapt gives your agents the ability to converse with customers in real time using programmed keyboard shortcuts. The result is perfect pitch delivery and less time spent on repetitive tasks.

4.) 
Cognigy

Cognigy is a global leader in Conversational AI Automation. Its platform, Cognigy.AI, enables enterprises to automate customer and employee communications using intelligent voice and chatbots

5.) 
Consilium Software

Consilium UniCloud™
UniCloud™ is an intuitive platform that allows Enterprises to deploy and manage their Unified Communication (UC) and Contact Center (CC) services with ease and entire provisioning can be completed in seconds using this comprehensive tool supporting digital transformation. The latest release 7.0 of UniCloud™ is a multi-tenant platform that transforms the delivery, management, and integration of collaboration and contact center solutions, for both Cloud and On-Premise deployment models.
With its single-pane-of-glass views and quick provisioning tool, UniCloud™ is instrumental in reducing the time to provision an entire multi-cluster Cisco collaboration platform, including contact centers (C...
(read more)

6.) 
eGain Corporation

eGain Solve
Proven, Easy, and Guided Journey to Automate Customer Engagement in a Digital+AI World

7.) 
Emmersion

Automated Language Testing
Emmersion offers automated assessments to quickly and accurately test speaking, writing, and grammar fluency in 9 languages and counting. We help contact centers improve CSAT scores by screening for top talent and retaining top performers.

8.) 
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)
 

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