Earlier this week, Digiday published an article about Overstock’s customer service, specifically that Overstock’s customer service texts have a 98% open rate. When I first saw the headline, my initial thought was “Wow, that’s impressive.” A near 100% open rate seemed so extreme, especially when …
What Is Knowledge Engineering and Why Do I Need It for Chatbot Development?
By now, most organizations are realizing that chatbots are something that will be used by customers and employees to interact with the enterprise – whether through voice interfaces including bots like Siri and Alexa or through chat mechanisms like Facebook messenger, slack or skype. But …
You Don’t Have to be Amazon to Master Personalized Customer Service
The king of customer service continues to reign. Just a couple days ago, Amazon officially released how many Prime customers it has, over 100 million. For readers that happen to not be one of those 100 million, Prime members are customers that pay a yearly …
Are You Ready for the Gig Economy
A generation or two ago, it was not unusual for workers to spend their entire careers at just two or three employers. Not anymore. “Secure employment” has become an oxymoron. Economists are now talking about the “Gig Economy” where workers become Independent contractors that sell …
Machine Learning or Linguistic Rules: Two Approaches to Building a Chatbot
“It gets better over time” may be the leading slogan for artificial intelligence (AI) these days. It’s also the technology’s biggest excuse. Is “better later” acceptable in today’s marketplace? How long should we wait for AI to become great?
For a company that is trying to …
How We Built Ivy
Back in mid-2016 as we were looking into the various platforms we could integrate with our Aspect CXP™ solution, which lets enterprises build and run AI-powered customer and employee self-service dialog applications, the one platform that really caught our eye was Facebook Messenger. Customers were …
Improve Your IVR, Improve the Customer Experience
I’m lucky enough to live in a warm part of the country. Thanks to a certain mouse, it’s a convention and meeting mecca. This time of year is especially popular for companies in the Midwest who are in the midst of a never-ending winter. A …
One month to go: is your contact centre ready for GDPR yet?
It’s been talked about for what seems like an age, but in just a few weeks it’ll finally become a reality: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25th May 2018. It will impact any business that holds personal data on customers, …
Contact Center Leaders: If You’re Not Early You’re Late
It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about a job interview, a team meeting or your annual physical. The saying holds true no matter what the occasion: if you’re not early you’re late. In order to prepare for all the obstacles that life is certain to …
Aspect and Intuit: Helping You Survive Tax Season
April 15 is a date that strikes fear into the hearts of many Americans as they scramble to explain to the IRS how much federal income tax they should be paying. It’s not surprising that so many American are nervous: The US tax code is …