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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential. Is communication still going strong and do you feel comfortable in those interactions? Just as important – has their culture evolved with the times?

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business?

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Artificial Intelligence and the Customer Journey

Horizon CX

So, let me share some insights into some recent customer service journey experiences I’ve had with organizations where AI and the cultural/people integration are being (or not) applied. This is where the fun begins or, to put it more crisply, where the customer journey can take a critical and not so smooth turn.

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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

Advances in digital technology have reshaped customer expectations for exceptional experiences. Today, customers have—and demand—choices when it comes to engaging with service and care centers. Traditionally, leaders focus on interactions within the contact center. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Experience Industry

COPC

AI is Ideal for the CX Industry The CX industry is embracing custom AI solutions for compelling reasons, and it’s no surprise why. Additionally, the high volume of interactions handled by CX professionals creates fertile ground for AI-driven efficiencies.

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Customer Self-Service Doesn’t Matter! That’s a False Paradigm!!!

Natalie Petouhof

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. Tweet It’s just not true.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience.

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