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Why banks should shift to offense and invest amid market uncertainty

West Monroe

As we’ve learned from previous recessions, the companies that combine defensive tactics with strategic offensive investments in customer experience, technology, and risk management can emerge from a downturn victorious. Customer Engagement. Customer outreach and communication. Descriptive and predictive analytics.

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CX leaders: Don’t let empowered consumers pass you by

OpinionLab

So how do you find out what your customers want? I’ll always remember a session at an Advertising Research Foundation conference in 2008 delivered to an audience of consumer research professionals in New York City. Innovative brands simply need to adopt more effective means of listening.

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Elevate growth with a customer service chatbot

BirdEye

Still, this technology sometimes struggles to understand complex or nuanced customer questions. Sometimes, it’ll completely miss the context of a sentence during customer engagement. The chatbot may respond with irrelevant and generic answers that anger or frustrate customers.

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Four Point Plan to get back to Business Post COVID19

Pink Guava

Yes, it will be a slow recovery of the economy with business models, customer demand everything having a reset. But there is always a silver lining after a doom, and history is the witness that every doom had been a change to start the NEW, be the dotcom, 2008 prime recession or the Great Depression of the 1920s.

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Coop Sweden Previews Cooper – an Artificial Intelligence Retail Virtual Assistant by EBI.AI

CSM Magazine

It’s an all-in-one customer engagement tool that will strategically help us to build a level of customer experience that is unparalleled in the Swedish retail marketplace. This means that ultimately, the virtual assistant will be available on web, mobile app, messaging services, telephone and smart speakers. About Coop.

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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

Lumoa

This meteoric pace of innovation birthed new and innovative solutions for modern contact centers, finally coming to a crescendo with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). Omnichannel also allows organizations to better understand their customers, thus prompting a greater investment in it on their part.

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Customer Experience and Value Add: Make it Personal, Emotional, and Sensory

Michelli Experience

In this blog post from 2008 , Dan noted: “ We used to think about decisions as cold calculated, detached, computations that examine the costs and benefits, but recently we have gained a higher appreciation for the role of emotions in our decisions and for the fundamental ways in which they change us…. Evolving VR.