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The Best Customer Service Articles from 2019 The results are in, and here are The DiJulius Group subscribers’ favorite articles of 2019 ranked by popularity. I recommend printing and reading any you missed and sharing this list with your team. Want to keep your leadership team motivated about Customer service all year? Sign them up for our. Read Full Article.
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The Best Customer Service Articles from 2019 The results are in, and here are The DiJulius Group subscribers’ favorite articles of 2019 ranked by popularity. I recommend printing and reading any you missed and sharing this list with your team. Want to keep your leadership team motivated about Customer service all year? Sign them up for our. Read Full Article.
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Making Robotic Process Automation for Employees. 10/31/2019. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a logical approach for companies to improve productivity and quality. The three primary categories of RPA solutions are: 1. Attended: RPA can “sit side-by-side” with an agent or employee at their desktop application and assist them with their tasks.
In an ideal world, all your company’s software solutions would be able to easily share information. If you needed an important detail about a customer’s purchasing history while working in your customer relationship management (CRM) platform, it would be simple to call it up from your enterprise resource planning (ERP). Within a few clicks, everything you need would be right there.
What are you doing on March 17 & 18? If you’re going to find yourself in the neighborhood of Lima, Peru, please join me at the 17th International Retail Congress. Retail 2020 is aimed at entrepreneurs, managers, general managers, business managers, marketing managers, vendors, and consultants — and will address the main trends, changes and challenges of the retail sector in Peru.
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As we cross the threshold from one decade to another, it’s natural to look back at the previous 10 years and try to make sense of events. Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software.
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