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The Customer Experience Oversight: Why Your Hiring Process Is More Critical Than You Realize
The Hidden Cost of Your Hiring Process: Your Customers You’ve invested millions in customer experience (CX). Fancy software. Slick interfaces. Training programs that would make Disney proud. But what if your hiring process is quietly undermining all that hard work?...
AI Integration and Strategy: Proactively Planning for Smooth AI Deployment
Members of Frost & Sullivan’s Customer Engagement Leadership Council recently participated in a group discussion designed to generate ideas and problem-solve about shared challenges implementing and integrating AI in the enterprise. Read on for key details and...
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Join the Customer Engagement Leadership Council
Navigate The New Era of Customer Engagement With Confidence The Customer Engagement Leadership Council, a Frost & Sullivan Professional...
Four Key Themes from the 13th Annual Customer Contact Europe: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
As I am writing this, the 13th Annual Customer Contact Europe: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange has just concluded. The event took...
Bots, Blockchain and Building a Customer-Centric Company
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Train to the Vision
Earlier this year I was traveling to Great Falls, Montana on business. My travel began at 5 am on Sunday and included a 3-hour layover in Seattle,...
Keynote Presentation: Saving The Customer Experience, One Contact Center At A Time
What Are You Building? I’m Building a [Customer Service] Cathedral
Consider the story of two stonemasons. You walk up to the first stonemason and ask, “Do you like your job?” He looks up at you and replies, “I’ve...
Virtual Executive Assembly Brief: Agent Culture and Engagement
Introduction Recently, members of the Customer Engagement Leadership Council gathered for a unique member benefit -- a Virtual Executive Assembly...
Taking Care of the Heart of Your Company – Your Customers
You just had that amazing first idea. The one that is going to be the foundation for the future. The future that will re-define or re-envision your...
CC Awards Program Opens to Recognize Excellence in Customer Service in 2019
Frost & Sullivan prepares to honor companies leading the customer service industry, rewarding excellence and outstanding achievement across a...
Employee Retention Rate: An Overlooked Factor in Creating Better Customer Satisfaction Rates
Companies face many challenges on a daily basis. One of the most prominent is adhering to customer’s demands and tendencies in order to yield...
Leveraging AI and robotic process automation technology to personalize customer experience
Customers want to get personalized experiences whenever they engage with companies and brands. This is the norm today. Customer experience is not...
Key Statistics affecting customer experience
Almost every action consumers make involves a digital application, from looking for the best product, to shopping, to after-sales support, which...
Creating A Global Customer Experience Your Company Expands Operations
When a company finds themselves with the capability of globally expanding their operations, it typically indicates they are successfully servicing...
Top 5 Best Practices for Superior Quality Management
It should come as no surprise that the customer experience is rapidly becoming the most important contact center objective. To make matters...
Improving the Customer Support Experience: A Microsoft AI Implementation Case Study
INTRODUCTION AI is poised to change and disrupt many industries, and among the first will be the customer support industry. This is because the two...
Solve Your Most Pressing Customer Service Issues with Customer Engagement Leadership Council Membership
Join dozens of customer contact industry leaders on the Customer Engagement Leadership Council and benefit from invaluable opportunities to learn,...
Traditional Corporate Responsibility is Out!: BPOs Transforming Employee Engagement into a Competitive Advantage
This Frost Perspective will explore how large Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) are redefining and expanding traditional Corporate Social...
How Improv Made Me a Better Call Center Agent
Contact center agents should absolutely never make up answers when speaking with customers. This is a difficult and serious job - definitely not a...
Chat, Tap, Talk: Trends Shaping the Future of Customer Experience
Omnichannel: Are We There Yet?
In October, I facilitated a session at the Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange entitled The Digital Transformation Struggle, Addressing the...
Top CX Takeaways from Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
What a fantastic couple of days at the Arizona Biltmore! Despite a general soreness from impromptu desert hiking, as well as a beard full of...
Engineering a Culture of Security Consciousness in Customer Service
A FROST & SULLIVAN WHITE PAPER EXCERPT Introduction and Purpose Today’s customers are more concerned than ever about how companies use their...
Measuring Employee Engagement for Greater Returns
With the constant hustle and bustle of the workday, it is often difficult to determine the root cause of employee turnover and limited employee...
Customer Survey Lessons
I have been called a glutton for punishment because I call a contact center every day of my career. No way. The lessons I've learned calling other...
2018 CC Awards Big Kahuna Winners Announced
Microsoft, Albridge and Dollar Shave among others honored as CC Awards “Big Kahuna” winners at the 14th Annual Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange for excellence in customer experience.
Reinforcing personalization: putting automation and AI to work
Leveraging the right blend of human touch and automation can help deliver effective, personalized customer experiences. While IBM predicts that 85%...
The benefits and risks of channel pivoting
Knowing where to best communicate with your customers is essential in running a successful business. But keeping up can be difficult given customers...
Bridging the Omnichannel Gap for Customer Communications
Communication is evolving. It is no longer enough to interact with customers through voice and email. Today’s customers are turning to alternate...
Meeting expectations at the right channels
Meeting expectations at the right channels Key findings about customer expectations and preferred communication channels Customers want frictionless...