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Today, leading brands and service providers are turning to the amazing cognitive technology offered by “chatbots” to better manage and automate the customer service experience. At the same time, another technology gaining traction in the industry, Robotic Process Automation, is also being referred to as a “bot,” and it has started to create some confusion.
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Companies are shooting themselves in the foot consistently around their customer experience. Why? And how do we help them to make it better? In the past 18 months, we’ve seen several major customer experience blunders from big brands. There is a pathway to improving customer experience globally, but it’s not necessarily the way we think about it now.
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Companies are shooting themselves in the foot consistently around their customer experience. Why? And how do we help them to make it better? In the past 18 months, we’ve seen several major customer experience blunders from big brands. There is a pathway to improving customer experience globally, but it’s not necessarily the way we think about it now.
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Every company, especially a large enterprise, builds an organizational structure around their customer operations. Whether by region, product, vertical, or any other business parameter they define, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are broken into teams to give them focus, tailored processes, and specific metrics that make sense for their line of business.
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