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Four key steps for training your customer support team for AI

Intercom

Adopting AI-first customer support looks different for every team. Customer service leaders will experience a range of reactions, with some people on the team eager to try new things immediately, and others being a bit more apprehensive. Ensuring everyone has the right skills and mindset to make the most of what really is an extraordinary opportunity is therefore an important responsibility.

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New Look and Feel, Same Help Scout

Help Scout

Introducing Inbox 2 — our new, more focused workspace that helps you delight more customers in less time. Read on to learn what's new with Inbox 2.

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Buyer Insights That Should Guide Your Planning for 2025

Customer Think

With the fourth quarter of 2024 less than two weeks away, many B2B marketing and sales leaders will soon begin planning for 2025. To develop an effective go-to-market plan, it’s vital to understand how the decision-makers in your target market(s) prefer to engage with potential suppliers at all stages of the buying process.

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Why We Redesigned Inbox

Help Scout

Help Scout redesigned its Inbox to improve usability, integrate new AI tools, and address the evolving needs of support teams while maintaining simplicity and flexibility.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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CX Day: Better Outcomes for Everyone

Customer Think

CX Day is a highlight of the year, celebrating customers, CX professionals, and CX outcomes. It’s always the first Tuesday of October. This year’s theme is: Why this theme? According to the Customer Experience Professionals Association (cxpa.org/get-involved/cxday): To explore and highlight credible proof of business impact. Real-world return on investment: profit.

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A New Era of Success: Gainsight Partners With SAP to Transform How Businesses Drive Retention and Growth

Gainsight

This past week, we shared one of the most significant announcements in Gainsight’s history: our strategic partnership with SAP, an iconic company with 50-plus-year legacy of helping their customers unite business-critical operations across nearly every industry, who has also quickly become a leader in the business AI space. This collaboration represents an unprecedented step forward for Gainsight, integrating our AI-powered customer success platform directly into SAP Sales Cloud.

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A New Era of Success: Gainsight Partners With SAP to Transform How Businesses Drive Retention and Growth

Gainsight

This past week, we shared one of the most significant announcements in Gainsight’s history: our strategic partnership with SAP, an iconic company with 50-plus-year legacy of helping their customers unite business-critical operations across nearly every industry, who has also quickly become a leader in the business AI space. This collaboration represents an unprecedented step forward for Gainsight, integrating our AI-powered customer success platform directly into SAP Sales Cloud.

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SuccessKPI First to Deliver All Workforce Engagement Management Motions in Single GenAI Platform with New Workforce Management (WFM) Solution

Customer Think

SuccessKPI WFM Leverages AI for Precise Traffic Forecasting, Staffing

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Alvaria Reverts Back to the Aspect Brand Name for WFM Products

Smart Customer Service

Under a new CEO, Alvaria is changing the name of its workforce management products back to Aspect and revising its product strategy.

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How to Solve Issues With Remote Team Management

Customer Think

As the world shifts towards a more digital and decentralized work environment, work from home(remote) has become a critical aspect of business operations. Whether you’re managing a small team or an entire department, the challenges of coordinating efforts, ensuring productivity, and maintaining team cohesion can be daunting.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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ServiceNow Launches Xanadu Release of the NOW Platform

Smart Customer Service

ServiceNow's new Xanadu release offers plenty of generative AI enhancements to the NOW platform.

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The Power of Equity: Why It Outperforms Equality

Customer Think

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have long been the standard framework used by companies seeking to improve their policies and culture and retain and attract talent from diverse backgrounds. In the present day, companies are expected to have more than a generic statement supporting DEI, but instead show how they proactively demonstrate these values.

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AI Agents Market to Be Worth $47.1 Billion by 2030

Smart Customer Service

MarketsandMarkets projects 44.8 percent CAGR for the AI agent technology market over the next six years.

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Could Lost Deals Correlate with Sales Success?

Customer Think

The New England Patriots’ new head coach Jerod Mayo picked up his first win and loss in the first two weeks of the NFL season.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.

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Gryphon.ai Names New CEO

Smart Customer Service

Clay McNaught is promoted from president and COO roles.

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Zonka Feedback Secures 26 Badges in G2’s Fall 2024 Report

Zonka Feedback

No need for confetti or fireworks—we’ll let the numbers speak for themselves. Zonka Feedback has picked up 26 badges in the G2 Fall 2024 report, solidifying our position in Experience Management and Feedback Analytics.

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AI Is the Magic in CX, Verint Engage Speakers Affirm

Smart Customer Service

Artificial intelligence produces impressive results for companies willing to take a chance on it, speakers point out at Verint's annual conference.

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15 Best Customer Service Companies Leading the Charge in Customer Centricity

SurveySensum

Did you know that in 2024, 88% of customers think customer service is more important than ever? And the price of getting it wrong? US companies lose an astounding $75 billion annually due to poor customer service. It’s not a small figure, and it paints a picture of just how much customer service is valued regarding business outcomes. Customer service and CX often get mixed up, but here’s the difference: customer service is a reactive approach to managing customer interactions, while CX is a proa

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Navigating Change Management: Transitioning to Inbox 2

Help Scout

This blog post provides a structured approach to change management using the ADKAR method, guiding teams through a smooth transition to Help Scout's Inbox 2, focusing on communication, hands-on training, and support to ensure successful adoption.

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Who’s in the driver’s seat – Human or Agent?

Customer Think

Oracle Cloud World is in the books, Dreamforce just wrapped up, Hubspot’s Inbound event is still on, and there is one key theme that overarches all three events. And no, it is not Larry Ellison getting all cozy with AWS (or Azure, for that matter).

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From Fragmented to Streamlined: How IP PBX Integration Enhances Hospital Management Systems?

Hodusoft

From Fragmented to Streamlined: How IP PBX Integration Enhances Hospital Management Systems? For hospitals and healthcare organizations, ensuring the right care for patients is at the heart of everything they do and every strategy they design. Hospitals not only need to focus on treating and curing patients but they also need to ensure that they provide the right patient service and communication to handle incoming calls and schedule appointments in a timely manner.