Today’s interview is with William (Bill) Colleran, President and Chief Executive Officer of AnswerDash, a predictive and artificial intelligence (AI) powered Q&A Saas platform that facilitates customer service for e-commerce businesses thereby reducing support costs and revealing customer needs. Bill joins me today to talk about self-service, context, why static FAQs are not enough and what firms should be doing to improve their customer service using self-service tools. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Big data and …
Category: Customer service
Today’s interview is with Ed Ariel, VP of Customer Service at ezCater, the only US-wide marketplace for corporate catering. We talk about preserving your customer service standards through a period of rapid growth, ezCater’s unique elements within its culture that have supported that growth, empowerment and what it means for them. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Customer experience, personalisation and how not to be creepy – Interview with Tara Kelly – and is number 226 in …
Today’s interview is with Tara Kelly, President & CEO of SPLICE Software, who are helping retailers, insurance companies, and banks optimize customer communications through the marriage of patent-pending human voice software, and personalized automated messaging systems. We talk about personalisation, how many companies are struggling to get it right and what companies can do to help their customers feel more comfortable with the personalisation and privacy balance. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Opaque and transparent AI …
This post was originally published on the Engage Customer website here. On Thursday 6th July I had the pleasure of chairing proceedings in Hall 2 of the Customer Engagement Transformation Conference that took place at the Victoria Park Plaza hotel in London. The theme of the day was to ‘help delegates in their quest to transform the way they interact with customers in order to reap the rewards of successful engagement’. All good and very interesting stuff and I was …
Today’s interview is with Dr. Rob Walker, Vice President, Decision Management and Analytics at Pegasystems, a leading provider of software for customer engagement and operational excellence. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Rob when I met up with him at Pegaworld in June. We talk about ethics, artificial intelligence (AI), impact and the balance of the human touch and technology in customer experience. This is the last of three interviews that I conducted at Pegaworld so …
This is a guest post from Benjamin Stone writer and technology enthusiast. In recent years customer service has gotten, in a word, complicated. Whether you want to blame millennials and their need to have everything now, smartphones for constant connectivity, the internet for the exponential boost in competition, or you simply want to yell at a cloud, the fact is organizations are facing the biggest challenges they ever have when it comes to customer satisfaction. Yet while constant connectivity, digitization and …
Today’s interview is with Tom Goodmanson, President and CEO of Calabrio, a call centre software provider. We talk about contact centres, their importance, the lack of attention that they sometimes receive and some of the perennial problems that they struggle with including agent turnover. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Aligning the organisation around three key journeys and why passenger experience equals employee experience – Interview with Mattijs ten Brink of Transavia – and is number 223 …
When companies talk about being customer centric, they often talk about putting their customers at the centre of their decision making and only doing things that are in their best interests. However, at the same time, many of those companies will also be leveraging a large number of the powerful insights that are coming out of behavioral science, behavioral economics and behavioral design and will be using them to help design and deliver a customer experience that stands out, attracts …
Today’s interview is with Mattijs ten Brink, Chairman & CEO of Transavia, a Dutch low-cost airline which is a wholly owned subsidiary of KLM and part of the Air France/KLM group. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Mattijs when I met up with him at Pegaworld earlier this month. We talk about how Transavia competes against larger competitors, how they are building an agile and adaptable organisation, the passenger and employee experience and a fascinating piece …