Kathy Sobus
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Products, goods, and services: Do you have anything in those categories that can be connected to the internet? That send signals? That provide information? If so, read on. If not… well, you should still read on, because this will likely impact you soon. There’s no sigh of relief here.
Read MoreTopics: Customer Experience
Preparing and creating as much data as you can will help you build for the future and support more self-service efforts.
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Modernization
Don’t be Afraid of Intelligent Virtual Assistants and the Help They Bring
Posted on March 22, 2022 by Kathy Sobus
Virtual assistants can offer an incredible amount of help to your customer care organization. Before we jump into that, let’s start by focusing on what a Virtual Assistant is—or better yet, an Intelligent Virtual Assistant.
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Customer Experience, Artificial Intelligence, Modernization
In my last blog post, I advocated for beginning your customer experience modernization journey by consulting with IT. My next piece of advice centers around what the end goal of your modernization efforts should be: allowing your customers more access to self-service—and I mean good self-service.
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Customer Experience, Artificial Intelligence, Modernization
Do you feel like you’re working on antiquated equipment? Are your customers demanding that you do something different to improve their experiences? If so, it’s time for your customer care organization to modernize—but what does that mean, exactly, and how can you best position yourself and your organization for success?
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Customer Experience, Modernization, Information Technology
Modernization: The concept isn’t new, but the form factor may be. This is due in most part to the consumption models of cloud, SaaS, and hybrid offers that are now available. Modernization has taken many shapes over the past 20 years because of the technologies that are available at any given time.
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Cloud, Customer Experience, Cyber Security, Modernization
Healthcare: If any industry or vertical landed on the map more than ever this past year, it was healthcare. We’ve talked to more healthcare customers than any other vertical during this time, and it makes sense why: healthcare has touched all of us in some way or another this past year. Whether someone has been ill, needed checkups, or is now getting vaccinated, it has or will touch all of us.
Read MoreTopics: Customer Experience, Healthcare
Harvard Business Review published an article on “Reinventing Customer Service,” and I believe they—and one of our customers—are onto something.
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Customer Experience
What does it mean to do business with a one-stop shop—does it mean working with only one vendor? Does it mean working mostly with one vendor and using a few other third-party applications? Does it mean being free from the restriction of any particular vendor?
Read MoreTopics: Customer Experience, Innovation
Pandemic this, COVID that… enough already, right? The situation was supposed to be temporary, but is it really? Many organizations I’m working with now are in a planning phase, and they aren’t planning for everyone to return to the office.
Read MoreTopics: Contact Center, Customer Experience, COVID-19