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Customer Service In 2022: The Times They Are A-Changin’

Forrester Digital Transformation

since the pandemic began, and customer service organizations have managed the impossible: moving thousands of agents home practically overnight and rapidly deploying new digital channels, all while supporting millions of COVID-19-stressed customers. Our world has changed, and customer expectations have changed with it.

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Customer Service In 2023: CX Front And Center   

Forrester Digital Transformation

In times like these, customer service teams are often pressured to cut costs – at all costs. It’s news to no one that the past few years have been tough. Having only just found some stability post-pandemic, companies are now thrust into a new economic crisis. While we don’t expect that to change entirely, we […]

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How To Navigate The Generative AI Hype In Customer Service

Forrester Digital Transformation

The customer service technology world is particularly saturated with these announcements; it seems like we can’t go a day without seeing another one. Not a huge […]

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Chatbots Will Play a Major Role in Customer Service for 25% of Companies by 2027

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/hirun Gartner predicts that by 2027, chatbots will play a major role in customer service for 25% of companies. For marketplace owners, it's an opportunity to engage with their online audience in real-time.

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Enterprise Knowledge Assistance Powered by AI for Smarter Decision Making

Enjoy improved customer service with faster responses and better satisfaction rates while streamlining processes through seamless integrations. Tailor EKA to your company’s needs with features like Digital Content Production, Knowledge Hubs, and Sentiment Analysis, ensuring precision and relevance.

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Cure The Automation Hangover In Customer Service

Forrester Digital Transformation

AI, the prophesied hero, powering the agent who doesn’t need breaks and can engage with 100 – no, 1000 – customers at once. Close your eyes and I’ll set the scene: it’s 2016. Chatbots are all the rage. News articles are predicting the death of the contact center as we know it. Infinitely scalable human-like […].

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AI-Powered Customer Service: Friend or Foe? Why Digital CX is Failing (and How to Fix It)

Premier BPO

Underwhelming Digital Experiences Business leaders are fascinated and optimistic about the potential abilities of AI-powered tools to solve problems such as staffing and handling customer requests. Max Ball, principal analyst at Forrester, says, “ People just look at the cost savings, and they don’t look at the customer experience.”