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Medtronic Puts Humans FIRST in Heroic COVID-19 Response

eglobalis

The number of companies willing to help us humans during the COVID-19 crisis is truly amazing. Medtronic is an amazing exception by going the extra mile, in their customer experience. The post Medtronic Puts Humans FIRST in Heroic COVID-19 Response appeared first on Eglobalis.

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The Fusing of AI & Automation with Human Judgment in Call Center Success

Callminer

See the way users and AI mesh to complete tasks in order for AI to deliver the fullest benefits to employees, organizations, and the customers they serve.

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10 Ways to Listen to Customers Without Surveys

CX Accelerator

Author: Jeremy Watkin. Surveys are a great way to listen to the voice of the customer, so don’t misconstrue the title of this article as being “anti-survey.” Problems occur, however, when surveys become the only way we listen to customers — especially when you consider that a good survey response rate is in the realm of 20-30%. That means you never hear from 70-80% of customers.

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

Let’s talk about that trickiest of subjects: Product Judgment. Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. Here, I will tackle some of the common questions around it: Does it exist?

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An Introduction to AI in Customer Service

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has risen dramatically in the customer service industry over the last few years. But many contact centers have yet to implement AI. In this eBook, we give an introduction to how customer service leaders are using AI to improve their customer experience.

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Supercharge Your Agent Workforce With These 8 Bots

Uniphore

Every action a business takes is now seen through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic. Business processes and workforce management considerations that were unthinkable a few short months ago, contact center leaders are revisiting. Call centers have become frontline workers in the wake of COVID-19. They are considered to be one of the most vulnerable places for the spread of this contagious virus.

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CX Journey™ Musings: Are Pre-Mortems and Post-Mortems Part of Your Work Plan?

Futurelab

Over the years, I’ve written a lot of posts about change and change management. In a post I wrote earlier this year about change and some of the learnings and takeaways from the pandemic and the business crisis that created, I noted that that we had/have a lot to learn. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) business change change management project management risk Facebook Like.

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How will COVID-19 change customer behavior and habits?

Beyond Philosophy

Just over a decade ago, just as the world was coming out of the deepest recession since the Greatest Depression, we carried out significant research across the globe with the largest container shipping company in the world. We repeated the research a year later when the economy was in full speed recovery mode and while some key drivers remained the same we found a noticeable and consistent change in every model we ran.

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The Importance of Context in Customer Service

Customer Service Life

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Learn Everything You Need to Know About CX From ’80s Music

Heart of the Customer

I admit it – I’m a child of the ‘80s. We’ve got 150+ stations on our satellite radio, but it stays tuned to 80s on 8 or First Wave, except for those rare occasions when I stray to the ‘70s or ’90s stations. (Much to the chagrin of my wife, who has broader musical tastes. But marriage is compromise, right?) During the pandemic, I’ve been listening even more, […].

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Facemasks, safety signs, and hand sanitizers won’t keep your customers

Bill Quiseng

Facemasks, door signs, floor decals, partitions, and hand sanitizers won’t keep your customers. Such safety protocols in response to the pandemic are expected from your customers. While failing to implement them will cost you customers, maintaining those standards will not guarantee that you keep them. Your competitors are doing the exact same thing which means what you are doing is average, heightened like everyone else, but still average.

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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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Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined?

eglobalis

Culture Experience Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined? Customer Experience Human Experience. The post Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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The Fusing of AI & Automation with Human Judgment in Call Center Success

Callminer

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Majoring in Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

By Jeremy Watkin My nieces and nephews have recently either entered college or are actively applying to universities, and I was struck with a thought. If one of them came to me and asked, “Uncle Jeremy, I’d sure love to follow in your footsteps and pursue a career in customer experience (CX). What major should I choose?”. While there are more and more schools offering degrees in customer experience or customer experience management, what if their school of choice does not?

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Six principles of system design

Intercom, Inc.

The start of any journey begins with consulting a map. But if you’re a product designer starting out on a new project, you might find yourself with a blank page, and the job of drawing the map: of defining the high-level design direction that your team is going to use to chart their course. Mess it up, and you could find yourself quickly marching your team off a cliff.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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How To Make Your IVR Not Suck

Uniphore

Almost every third person in the world uses a smartphone. As users’ adoption continues to grow, regular voice calls will come to be seen as quaint. With the rise of conversational AI, consumers have come to expect even more from interactive voice systems. Read More.

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Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking

ClearAction

Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking Lynn Hunsaker. Why are customer experience indexes powerful? To paint a concise picture of growth strength. An index is like an executive summary of your voice of the customer research. It says: overall, our propensity to grow is increasing or decreasing. One size does not fit all. There are many types of customer experience indexes, and they each communicate something specific, based on certain assumptions, with greatest usefulness to one or more gr

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Mailchimp, VitalSource and monday.com Supporting Students And Small Businesses During Coronavirus

Navedas

We have all been tossed about by the current crisis having to make hard choices and swift changes. Here are a few companies giving support during the coronavirus economic fallout. The post Mailchimp, VitalSource and monday.com Supporting Students And Small Businesses During Coronavirus appeared first on Navedas.

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The Big Mistake People Make with AI

Beyond Philosophy

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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On Being an Accountable Customer Service Leader

Customer Service Life

Image by Daniel Reche from Pixabay. I recently wrote an article about a new quality process where I coached my team without showing them a score. So far it’s going great and the team has been receptive to the coaching. The other day I was reviewing emails sent to our customers to make sure they were doing all of the following behaviors (Coincidentally, these are the behaviors on our quality form): Making a human connection.

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Customer Journey Maps: The Top 10 Requirements

Heart of the Customer

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6 Simple Tips For Customer Service Emails With A Personal Touch

Win the Customer

Customer service is one of the most important things to get right as a business – these moments of interaction with customers and clients leave a long lasting impression in individual hearts and minds. The sum total of these impressions is incredibly important to how your brand is perceived, and as people become more outspoken than ever on digital platforms, that counts.

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Best Customer & Employee Experience Design Books 2020 2021 List

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Best Customer experience and Employee Experience experience Design Books of 2020 2021 List. The post Best Customer & Employee Experience Design Books 2020 2021 List appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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25 Experts Reveal the Top Things Customer Self-Service Systems Do to Hurt Customer Experience

Callminer

Read this blog to learn what can go wrong with self-service systems and how these issues can hinder the customer experience.

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The 11 Tracks on our CX Playlist

CX Accelerator

Collected and written by your CX DJ, Jeremy Watkin. ,, In the #CXQOTD for Friday, October 16 we challenged our community to come up with a CX playlist. The question was, “What song sums up your aspirations as a CX leader?”. Let’s look at what the CX Accelerator community came up with. And a quick apology for being a bit heavy on the Coldplay. But what can I say?

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Conversational design for better products

Intercom, Inc.

We all know what a conversation between two people sounds like. “Hey, can you help me a sec?”. “Sure. What’s up?”. “I just can’t make sense of this dashboard.”. Human conversation is a sequence of verbal exchanges – what linguists call turn-taking. This rhythmic exchange is deeply hardwired into our social neurophysiology, as call-and-response bonding in animals is likely hundreds of millions years old.

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How To Create a Seamless Brand Experience

Uniphore

It’s become clear that the contact center needs to offer customers a better experience. Customer expectations for help and support have increased dramatically, Gartner noted in 2019. And it didn't matter what industry -- expectations were high across the board. More people today demand always-on support. They expect customer service to be available across all digital channels.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Think You Can’t Afford to Improve CX? Think Again!

Taylor Reach Group

By Peg Ayers. Everybody wants to improve the Customer Experience (CX) they provide, right? But maybe you believe it’s just too expensive to even think about it. Your organization is doing its best with the resources it has. What else can you do? Plenty! Providing poor CX is incredibly expensive! A 2019 survey, which interviewed more than 6,000 consumers in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States says 72% of respondents said, “I am loyal to a certain brand, but as soon as

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IoT Is Transforming Operations, Customer and Employee Experiences, and Generating Growth

eglobalis

IoT Is Transforming Operations, Customer Experience and Employee Experiences, Efficiency and generating Growth. The post IoT Is Transforming Operations, Customer and Employee Experiences, and Generating Growth appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Simplify employee and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target

eglobalis

Simplify employee experience and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target. The post Simplify employee and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Don’t Talk about Great CX Culture if You Don’t Know MED

eglobalis

Don’t Talk about Great Customer Experience if You Don’t Know MED , customer experience , employee experience loyalty , human experience. The post Don’t Talk about Great CX Culture if You Don’t Know MED appeared first on Eglobalis.

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively