{"id":513780,"date":"2024-04-03T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genesys.com\/blog\/post\/fresh-angles-on-ai-data-and-personalisation-in-cx"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:23:20","slug":"fresh-angles-on-ai-data-and-personalisation-in-cx","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.genesys.com\/en-sg\/blog\/post\/fresh-angles-on-ai-data-and-personalisation-in-cx","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Angles on AI, Data and Personalisation in CX"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_section full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The theme of Enterprise Connect 2024<\/a> centred around maintaining momentum in customer experience (CX) transformation. And attendees were eager to get all the information they could about strategies and new technologies available to wow their customers and help their agents succeed.<\/p>\n

Two topics stood out as change makers for the industry. Harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) was the No. 1 recommendation for improving CX and EX<\/a> now \u2013 and in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Data, specifically how to properly use the mountains of valuable customer data organisations have, was another major topic. AI loses its impact without robust, quality data.<\/p>\n

Experts at the show stressed the importance of getting more actionable insights from customer data<\/a> to give them the personalisation they crave. And equipping frontline agents with the tools necessary to access that data empowers them to resolve customer issues faster. It not only improves customer engagement, but it also alleviates their on-the-job frustrations.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what industry analysts, consultants and Genesys experts had to say about AI, data and top technologies to include in your customer experience strategy to gain that competitive advantage.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

What\u2019s one way AI delivers business benefits in customer and employee experience?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

“One area is the agent experience and using solutions like agent assist to help answer tough questions in real time. This means you don\u2019t have friction within the customer experience during an engagement<\/a>. It improves quality management and performance evaluations. Also, using generative AI to handle interaction summarisations allows agents to get more done.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen quantifiable impact there. One early adopter of auto-summarisation<\/a> is saving about five minutes of after-call work per agent. When you think about five minutes across all your agents, that\u2019s significant. That means you\u2019re getting customers through the queue faster and interactions get a little bit faster. And you can handle more capacity with your current staff.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Nathalie DeChellis, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Genesys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“AI is important as we think about modifying conversations from being more transactional to being more interactive. We\u2019ve seen it already in having conversation summaries \u2014 enabling agents to focus on those one-on-one customer conversations rather than having to focus on documenting those conversations. Letting the technology do the summarisation improves both the customer and employee experience.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Josh Goldlust, VP, Product, Genesys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“We can understand what\u2019s happening within conversations. And using that, we can get sentiment analysis, empathy analysis, topic spotting. And we can use that to understand employee behaviors, customer behaviors and the customer experience<\/a>. And that’s just the starting point for AI today.<\/p>\n

On top of that, there\u2019s agent-assist capabilities \u2014 and that’s something organisations can deploy today to help agents be more efficient in their jobs. They can use that to answer knowledge quicker, to get summarisations at the end of their call. Right from there, you can gain performance efficiencies and improve customer and employee experiences.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Rakesh Taylor, VP of Product Management, WEM, Genesys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s one AI misconception that’s stalling progress? And how can CX leaders overcome that?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

“One misconception that CX leaders have about AI is that it’s a one-and-done thing. They think they can just deploy AI and they’re done with it. But the truth is: It needs constant refining, constant tuning and training, constant updating. You have to look at your knowledge bases, your data sources and continuously update them with quality data.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Blair Pleasant, President and Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“AI is just two simple letters, but it seems so complex. So, I’d say one of the biggest misconceptions is that you have to have it perfected before you launch.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of value companies can get right away from taking simple steps, whether it\u2019s using AI for self-service or for a knowledge portal<\/a> or being able to expose knowledge automatically to your agents. There are a lot of places you can start small. Start to gain the benefits and then start evolving some of your processes. It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Josh Goldlust, VP, Product, Genesys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“When companies think about getting started with AI, they often perceive that it\u2019s really hard to get going and that it\u2019s hard to assemble a team that has the necessary expertise.<\/p>\n

The reality is you can get started with pieces. Genesys offers convenient ways to get started with your conversation and behavioral data that already exists in the system based on using our products<\/a>. And with that, you have a starting point that\u2019s easy to adopt and to use \u2014 and business users can do it, too.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Brett Weigl, GM, Digital, AI and Journey Analytics, Genesys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s one piece of advice you\u2019d give CX leaders on getting more value from customer data?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

“CX leaders have to look at integrating their data \u2014 more than just their contact centre data. They need to look at their CRM data, for example, and put it together with data from other channels and functions and look at the full story. The integrated data shows the end-to-end customer journey.<\/p>\n

Although some organisations are already doing that, others haven’t made that connection yet. But today, it\u2019s necessary to look at all the data, not just contact centre data.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Robert Lee Harris, President and Principal Consultant, Communications Advantage Inc<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“CX leaders can get more value from their customer data by actually using the data.<\/p>\n

Organisations collect so much information. They have it from so many different sources. They need to integrate all that data into one source, and then use the data. It can tell you about trends; it can tell you about patterns you can take action on.<\/p>\n

So don’t let the data go to waste. Integrate it. Take advantage of it. Find ways to solve customer problems using the data you have.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Blair Pleasant, President and Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“CX leaders need to be looking at not just the digital side of the customer experience, but also the voice side \u2014 and the data that goes into it.<\/p>\n

If they don\u2019t have all that data, they\u2019re not going to measure their contact centre correctly. They need it to manage their SLAs, to deliver a better customer experience, to manage workflows \u2014 especially if they’re looking into a workforce engagement management [WEM] suite<\/a> to provide interaction analytics.<\/p>\n

Organisations today should be using text and speech analytics from WEM as a frame for collecting even more data to increase and continually optimise their knowledge base.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Steve Leaden, President, Leaden Associates<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Staff for it. Organisations need to hire people and have them do the job of using customer insights to provide more value to the organisation \u2014 to extract meaningful information from the data they’re getting \u2014 and not have it be part of someone else’s job.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Melissa Swartz, Founder, Swartz Consulting, LLC<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“One way CX leaders can get more information from their customer data is to learn by being their own customer. Go through a full customer journey, follow what the customer experience is like, see where the pain points are, see what you would want to change if you were your own customer.<\/p>\n

When you go through the whole process \u2014 start to finish \u2014 of what your customers experience, you can then use that qualitative data with other insights to improve that experience.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Kyle Leaden, Consultant, Leaden Associates<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Think about that push and pull of data. You want to make sure that you\u2019re getting data from your critical CRMs, ERPs\u2026 all those places. And within your system, you\u2019re generating a lot of data that could push back into the machine learning models so they have something to aggregate, something to analyse.<\/p>\n

When you think about the role of generative AI, it\u2019s creating something out of something. If you have nothing for it to create from, you\u2019re at zero. You need to make sure you’re pumping enough data into your CX system and that you\u2019re generating enough data across voice, digital, bot interactions, WEM, etc.<\/p>\n

And you need to analyse it properly across positive and negative sentiment. You need to make sure your AI models are running enough data to give you an output that’s optimised and that’s beneficial for your business.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Nathalie DeChellis, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Genesys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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