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EXECUTIVE INTERVIEWS
Improving Video Visits and Other New Patient Experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many new challenges in healthcare. Most importantly, providers want to ensure the highest quality of care and treatment to patients while minimizing the spread of the virus. Healthcare organizations have had to adapt quickly from...
Silver Linings in a Pandemic – “Humanizing Agents”
Key Takeaways from Customer Contact VIRTUAL:
A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
INTRODUCTION Agents are the front lines in handling customer emotions. Often when customers call, they have already exhausted poorly designed self-service options and are in a state of frustration by the time the agent takes the call. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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Improving Video Visits and Other New Patient Experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many new challenges in healthcare. Most importantly, providers want to ensure the highest quality of care and treatment to patients while minimizing the spread of...
Silver Linings in a Pandemic – “Humanizing Agents”
Key Takeaways from Customer Contact VIRTUAL:
A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
INTRODUCTION Agents are the front lines in handling customer emotions. Often when customers call, they have already exhausted poorly designed self-service options and are in a state of frustration...
Featured Video Presentation:
4 Lessons from the Most Customer-Centric
Genre of Rock
James Dodkins used to be an actual, real life, award-winning rockstar. He played guitar in a heavy metal band, released albums and tore up stages all over the world. James uses this unique...
Let’s Make Our Frontline’s Work Easier So Customers Win
We know that requiring less of our customers results in happy and loyal customers (check out Matt Dixon’s The Effortless Experience). Customers do not want to have to interact with a service...
Searching for the Magic… CX in Tough Times
What is the magic answer to unlocking the Customer Experience? The answer is… there is no magic. The Customer Experience (CX) requires being open to change, fully understanding all facets of the...
The Importance of Operational Technology Cybersecurity for a Rich Customer Experience
Introduction – Growth of IT-OT convergence in industrial verticals As networks evolve and elements such as ultra-low latency and network dependency are in the center of this evolution, organizations...
Serendipity, Technology and Creating Opportunity
Frost & Sullivan recently posed a few timely questions to customer experience industry expert Vinod Varma, who will be leading a session, Rebooting Your CX Initiatives: Advancing from Insights,...
3 Key Ways to Create a Winning Touchless Experience
Last year COVID-19 rocked the way we live and conduct business. Overnight, customer expectations changed and for Safelite AutoGlass it meant that we had to change how we serviced customers. It is...
Featured Video: Not All Superheroes Wear Uniforms,
They Wear Headsets Too
Harnessing Voice of the Customer to Drive Growth
When we talk about Voice of the Customer what do we mean? Well, in essence, it is the process of capturing the customer's expectations, preferences and aversions. It doesn’t really matter what...
Brand Experience: What’s That and Why Should I Care?
In my career, I’ve had the great pleasure of working with some iconic brands in varying industries: food and beverage, hotel, travel, and now, consumer electronics. What I always find so...
Top Takeaways from Customer Contact VIRTUAL:
A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
Last September, Frost & Sullivan launched our first ever Customer Contact VIRTUAL event. The new platform proved very successful for an interactive Executive MindXchange resulting in a full...
Making Work from Home Work for You – The Long Game
It’s no secret that this year has changed a lot for everyone. Customer experience teams know the impact of COVID-19 all too well. As the world faced this global pandemic, and many business models...
The Returns from Investing In your Customer Experience
Adapted from DoingCXRight.com
By Stacy Sherman Customer Experience Strategist and Practitioner Over the years, we often hear “The customer is always right.” While “always” may not really be the case, companies are going out of...