Let Your Humans Be Human

Guest blog by Colin Priest There’s an industrial revolution under way in businesses across the world, and it is all about automation. Businesses are embracing machine learning and artificial intelligence to make better decisions automatically. And the reason for this revolution is the comparative strengths of humans and computers. Computers are strongest at repetitive tasks, […]

Conversational AI: An Introduction

Guest post by Nine Connections Is Customer Service dead? The other day, my 73-year old father, was grumbling about something he read in the news about automation of processes at the local bank. “People don’t talk anymore. In my day, customer service meant talking to someone, saying hello, asking how your day was. Now it’s a […]

Making Returns on the Conversational Economy

Article by Adam Rawot, CEO Woveon I remember reading an article almost ten years ago talking about how teens were sending over 40 texts a day on average. The tone of the article was incredulous, but the statistic pales in comparison to how we exist online now. Speaking personally, it’s not implausible I send off […]

A Guide to Excellent Conversation Management

A must-read guide for enterprises with billions of conversations and millions of customers. Enterprises are much more overwhelmed with conversations than ever before. Not only do they have to actively respond to customers over a myriad of channels like email, phone, social and livechat, they’re expected to give personal, relevant and fast responses. To tackle […]

Customer Experience, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Thoughts from Oovvuu, Canva & The Minerva Collective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is all the buzz right now, and rightfully so with the significant contributions it has made to redefining many aspects of business. However, many people are still skeptical about the application of AI and ML to enhancing customer experience. Some would argue that machines cannot possibly take over […]

AI Technology and Customer Service

Recently I wrote an article for LinkedIn titled “Can we maintain the human touch with customer service?” I couldn’t help think about how fast we are moving with Artificial Intelligence that the question still remains, I am not worried about 5 years from now or what new customer interactions will be digital, but how will […]

Navigating Your Way Past The “Trough Of Disillusionment” For Artificial Intelligence In Customer Experience

Guest blog by Steve Nuttall The hype around Artificial Intelligence technologies is at its peak. According to the 2017 Gartner Hype Cycle, emerging technologies such as deep learning, machine learning and virtual assistants are at the “peak of inflated expectation”. Cognitive expert advisors have passed this peak and are now descending towards the “trough of […]

Best Ways to Create a Winning Customer Experience Strategy

Business nowadays needs a winning customer experience strategy to take advantage of their consumer base, and develop brand potential in their industry. Nowadays, customer experience is at an all-time, and a business is judged on their interactions with customers and business relationships with clients. The reason why it holds so much importance is because customers […]

Customer Experience Management and their Importance to Businesses

Customer experience metrics provide a means of gaining access to tangible evidence of your business’s reception which gives you an idea of what steps you could take to improve the overall customer experience. Your best tool to enhance customer experience management and improve customer support is to gain a deeper understanding of what your customer […]

Five Companies Who Have Lost thousands of Customer Payments

Large conglomerates are not immune to sophisticated cybercriminals who can find ‘loopholes’ and ‘vulnerabilities’ in a company’s cybersecurity defense systems to exploit customer payments. We normally assume that the corporate world with its enterprise software solutions and high-security firewalls are on standby 24×7. However cyber crime does not choose depending on the size of your business […]