Genesys Webinar
Channel Surfing: Mastering Digital Channels for your business
Genesys Webinar
Channel Surfing: Mastering Digital Channels for your business
[cutoff co_thick="2px"][webinarschedule]Digital channels, like web chat, social messaging apps and chatbots, hold tremendous potential for customer engagement and support. And while there’s great appetite for them from both customers and businesses, customer experience leaders often feel they’ve yet to realize the full potential of these digital channels.
If you’re looking to add new digital channels or want to get the most from channels you’ve already deployed, join us for this roundtable discussion. Our panel of experts will discuss the fundamentals of using these channels to listen, understand, and act on customer needs with empathy.
Get practical guidance on how to deliver amazing customer experiences through digital channels. Register today.[cutoff co_thick="2px"]1
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Good morning, evening, and afternoon everyone. This is Josh Reed
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from the digital events team, and I'll be the moderator
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for today's presentation. Let me start by saying welcome. And
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thanks for joining today's live webinar channel surfing, mastering digital
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channels for your business. As I usually do, I'm going
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to cover a couple of housekeeping items, but I'm going
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to try and keep it short and sweet. So, first
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off, if you experience any problems viewing or listening to
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today's presentation, do me a favor and just hit it
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with a quick refresh that usually fixes any cancellations. You
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also have the ability to enlarge the slide window and
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the video window throughout the conversation today. So, if you
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this is designed to be an interactive experience between you
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and our presenters today. So, throughout the conversation, you can
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throw questions that you have into the Q and A window
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throughout the entire conversation today. However, sometimes time gets away
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the next few business days. And also know that this
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that check out the resources in the resource list below
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the slides, these resources expand on today's topic of digital
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channels what you can do is go ahead and click
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on those now, and they will open up a new
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take the survey that's going to show up at the
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icon below. We tailor these conversations to exactly what you,
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the attendees want to learn more about with respect to
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a favor and take that survey so that we can
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incorporate your feedback in the future of Genesys webcasts. And
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as I mentioned, short and sweet. So, today we have
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three awesome presenters excited to give you an inside look
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and some practical guidance on how to deliver amazing customer
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experiences through digital channels. So, I'm actually going to introduce
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you all today to our first presenter, Charlie Godfrey. Charlie,
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the floor is yours. Thanks, Josh. And welcome everybody. My
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name is Charlie Godfrey with Genesys strategic business consulting. And
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thanks for joining us today. So, mastering digital channels, why
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does digital matter so much today? And so, we recently
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published a paper of human connections in crisis. And I don't think
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it's a surprise to anyone to hear that people are
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feeling disconnected. There's a connection deficit, as people are interacting
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with other people and companies they do business with. Interesting
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is the people that feel the most disconnected, basically their
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behavior is less digital. The people that feel connected are
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using digital channels to do so. So, digital is really
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helping people to feel connected with their peers and with
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their companies. So, what does that mean? And you'll hear
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some terms, one thing that we hear a lot in
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the market is empathy. And some people have a strong
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reaction to this that it's fuzzy or emotional. And what's
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important to understand is empathy is not about sympathy, it's
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not about being nice. It's about understanding what another person
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is experiencing. This is a rather academic definition of empathy,
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but essentially it's this. Walk in the other guy's shoes.
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What is he been through? How can I help? And
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so, while that's deems like a very abstract concept, we've
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taken a shot at making it tangible and making it
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actionable. And so, if you think about empathy, we know
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that empathy builds trust and trust leads to loyalty. And
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that's the real business reason to do this. A recent
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Harvard Business Review article said that loyalty leaders grow revenue
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two and a half times faster than their peers based
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on this strength of loyalty. And so, it makes good
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business sense. And we do that through personalized experiences and
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we make that happen through technology. But a lot of
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people come to me and say, " Charlie, well, that's great,
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but how do I get from the outside ring to
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the inside ring? How does technology make empathy happen?" And
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so, what we've come up with is a way to
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simplify empathy and to make it actionable. And it comes
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down to these verbs, these words, interestingly enough. And so,
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what it is, if I'm going to have an empathetic
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experience with you, the first thing I'm going to do
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is listen, I'm going to take in as much information
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as I can. I'm going to use my brain and
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my experience to understand and predict the right way to
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respond to you. I'm going to take the action and
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provide a response and try to help. And then I'm
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going to gauge the success of that and see if
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it worked and learn from it. And so, if we
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think about empathy in this way and simplify it, we
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can start to apply that to our technology ring, think
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about it. We can listen at scale through our data
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ecosystem. We can take that data and transform it with
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AI to create understanding and prediction. We can use our
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engagement channels to take action and engage and interact with
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our customers and then return to AI to learn and
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improve the experience each time we go through it. And
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so, from a Genesys perspective, we've approached it as orchestrating
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systems of listening, understanding, action and learning, and what we
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refer to that as an experience, as a service. And
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now I'd like to bring in Robin Gareiss from Metrigy.
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Robin, you've had some experience with this concept of listening
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and acting, and as it pertains to the digital world,
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could you share a few things around that and introduce
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yourself to the folk? Yeah, absolutely, Charlie. Thank you. My
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name is Charlie said it first, I'm Robin Gareiss, I'm
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CEO here at Metrigy. We're a research and advisory firm.
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And so, we're always out there interviewing and surveying enterprise
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CX leaders to understand what they're doing and what's working
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for them, what's not that type of thing. And so,
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as I'm out talking to people about this, what I
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find is a best practice among those who are doing
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the right thing is to really gather data, to gather
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that information. So, from a real tactical standpoint, if you
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look at this chart starting at number one, you want
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to, first of all, determine what metrics are you going
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to measure and over what interval are you going to
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measure them? So, you might be looking at customer satisfaction,
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you might be looking at a specific metric for your
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agent performance. It could be a whole, oh boy, there's
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no shortage of metrics, but what does it matter to
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you? What are you going to do? And then even not
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only just from a specific context and a perspective, but
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from a business perspective, are you going to look at how,
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what you're doing in the context centers affecting things like
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revenue or cost or agent efficiency, customer sentiment, all of
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those things. So, figure that out first and then take
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your baseline assessment. So, no matter what new technology you're
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planning to implement to help improve customer experience, take the
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baseline first, because if you forget that and trust me
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so many companies do you can't go back. You can't
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go back and take those numbers again. I mean, sometimes
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you might have them stored somewhere in a report, but
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it might not be the exact way you're planning the
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metric in the future. So, take that baseline and then
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take your measurements at every pre- established interval, whether it's
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by second, by minute, by hour, by day, week, month,
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year, whatever it is. And it could be multiple pick those
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metrics, make sure you have an automated process in place
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to get those metrics gathered. A lot of companies stop
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there and that's not doing any good. It's like, " Oh
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yeah, we got the metrics." Oh, what do you do
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with them?" "I don't know, nobody's really analyzing them." The next
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big group of companies stops at the next point, which
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is, " Yeah, they've got all this data, they analyze results,
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and that's where they stop." They're not making any changes.
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So, number five to me is super important. That's revising
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based on the latest metrics. It may be based on
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real time contextual data, it may be based on historical
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trends. You may be making changes immediately on the spot
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on AI may be helping you to do that at
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some point. But you look at those numbers, you look
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at the data and you're going to revise based on
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that because you want to continuously improve that customer. And
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then the last thing I want to do is reporting your
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results. So, where are you doing well? Where do you
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need to improve? How can you learn from these results?
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That's going to help you moving forward to get more
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funding for more projects, to be able to add more
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technologies to your customer experience are still there, continue to
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improve on what you're doing. So, I think the key thing here
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is to gather your data and then do something with it.
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Don't just sit on it. Awesome, Robin, thanks very much.
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And I think we'll see that a lot. Everything is
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a circle. Everything is continuous. We're always trying to improve,
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so beautiful insights. Thank you so much. So, as we
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think about empathy, and we think about this, how does
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digital help us be more empathetic? I thought it might
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be interesting to go through and experience without empathy. What
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does that feel like? And so, here's a little storyboard
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of a recent experience I had when I went to
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my favorite business website. I wanted to make sure not
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to call out any companies, but here's a generic website,
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but I logged into this favorite website and they said, "
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Welcome back, Charlie." And that felt so great, right? I
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felt recognized, I felt like no I'm bursting through the
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door at cheers and everybody recognizing and welcoming me to
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the website. So, then I went on my journey and
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I was looking for information. I was looking for products.
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I started to narrow my search and I found the
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thing that I was after. And I got to the
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shopping cart and I hesitated. And there was something that
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wasn't quite right and what happened, guys? Nothing. So, here
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I sat and no one was listening. No one was
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understanding that I had a need. No one was predicting
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the action and taking that action. And so, I gave
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them some more help. I said, " Does this paint contain
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lead?" And basically, they had no results. So, I'm saying
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explicitly what my problem is now. And so, then they
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were nice enough to surface a chat. And I said, "
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Great. I can escalate to a human resource and finally
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be understood." And so, when I clicked on this button,
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an interesting thing happened, they asked me who I was.
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Now, I thought I was norm. I thought they understood
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who I was. They listened to me and they were
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welcomed me back, but they had forgotten all that. So,
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I was starting over again. And when I got to
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the poor employee, she was completely at a disadvantage where
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it was, " Hi, how can I help you?" " Yeah, does
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this paint contained lead?" " What pain are you looking at?"
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And so, like Robin said to have that context in
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real time to pass it forward and to share it
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what a transformational experience that would be. And so, now
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let's flip the coin and let's think about what would
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that feel like with empathy inaction? And so, essentially what
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that means is as you're browsing the website, the platform
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is listening. It's using information to understand and predict the
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journey that you're on and then take action. So, in
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this case, you see this bot, the bot is saying, "
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Hi, Charlie, welcome back norm. I know who you are.
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I see you're looking at paint. What can I ask
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you? What can I help you with? Does it contain lead?
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Here's some content that may satisfy your query." And then
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let's continue the conversation. And perhaps digital resources can qualify
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a lead. And so in this case, Charlie's actually a
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commercial account and wants to buy hundreds of gallons of
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this paint. And so, now to be able to leverage
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that and then take it to the next level, you
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reduce your shopping carts and journey abandonment. You increase the
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utilization of those valuable digital pieces that you've created and
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you qualified opportunities that deserve to be taken forward to
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the human resource. And so, as we move to the
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human resource, part of empathy is making sure they've got
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all the information. So, providing the human resource with all
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the context of the conversation that happened with the bot,
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the journey that Charlie was on. And then like Robin
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said, even using AI to connect the right agent with
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the right person for this interaction and for this customer.
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place of understanding. So, we can also surface and listen
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to the conversation in real time to surface the relevant
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knowledge, to help Tina to be successful and confident. And
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then keep her engaged with gamification tools, knowing that in
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this world that we're in, a lot of people are
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working remotely and feel that disconnect in our workplace as
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well. And so, it's that kind of experience that we're
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talking about when we think about empathy in action and
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how experience as a service works. And so, it's about
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getting the business results of leads converted, reducing the cost
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of acquisition and it's really being a person centric approach.
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So, who's at the center of the experience. Sure, we
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know we can listen to the customer and where they've
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been, who they are, but we also need to flip
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that coin over and also look from an employee perspective
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and be able to listen understand and predict the right
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things that the employee needs to feel good. So, conceptually,
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that makes a lot of sense. Robin, I think you
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shared with us and I'd love for you to share
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with the group, some real transformations that you've seen and
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what you see really happening. This isn't just about Slideware,
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this is about business and transformation. You want to share some
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stuff with us. Yeah, absolutely. And Charlie, I love this
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whole side because I talk to people so many times
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about, don't just look at the customer and don't just
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look at the employee or the contact center agent or customer service
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representative, whatever you call them in your company, you've got
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to look at both sides because truly happy agents make
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happy customers. And we've been able to document that with data
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even so. I really think that's important to look at
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that full 360 degree view of what's going on there.
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customer experience, we always hear a lot about digital transformation.
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transformation is going on right now are customer facing. So,
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I do a lot of research on that. And when
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we defined from a very high level, a customer experience
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transformation, it's basically the innovative application of new or existing technologies
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to improve the customer and, or agent experience to drive
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that measurable business value. So, when you transform customer experience,
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you should be able to measure business value. You should
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be able to see, hopefully if you're doing it right,
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you'll see an improvement. If you don't see an improvement,
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well, then there's something wrong that you have to fix.
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to be able to measure it, kind of going back
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to what I was talking about earlier. But first of all,
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when we just look at CX transformations, a lot of
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people are doing this now. So, you can see here
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a chart that looks at a success group in purple
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and all companies in blue. So, in our research, we
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define a success group, and these are companies who have
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the highest measurable numbers when it comes to revenue, costs,
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customer ratings, and agent efficiency. So, these are the companies
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who have done things and they've done them right. And
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they can measure it and show you how well they've
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done. And you can see here the success group, almost
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80% of the success group has a CX project complete
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or underway, or is planning to do so, but even
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all companies that are research and there's, by the way,
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700 companies in this particular research, it was a global
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study. And then in the success group, there's about 157
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companies. So, if you look at even all companies in
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this research, 65% are either completed a project, planning it
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or a one's underway. So, this is something, if you're
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not doing right now, you probably should be just so
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you're not at a competitive disadvantage. You want to look
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at your customer experience initiatives, you want to look at
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the technology that you're using today and figure out where
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can you improve things? Where can you drive business value?
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Where can you address an opportunity or solve a problem?
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doing just that. So, when you look at customer experience
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transformation projects, I generally see them in any one of
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these three areas. They're either customer facing, they're agent facing,
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or they're more broadly about analytics and action. So, we
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look at customer facing, for example, we see companies doing
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virtual assistants who guide their customers. They may schedule a
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service call. They may be able to escalate out of
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a service knowledge base to a live agent, if they
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see that the customer is struggling. I think that a
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key here, when you're talking about escalation is to make
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sure you have enough escalation hooks. You don't want to frustrate
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customers. A personalization just to do things like boosting sales
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in CSAT. So, as Charlie said, when he
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said, " Hey, Charlie." Having that personalized
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interaction is very important to people, especially these days when
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we don't have enough personal interactions in the real world,
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we need them virtually. So, make sure that what you're
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doing is personalized to your customer's preferences. And then you
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also see functional AI enabled self portals. You see AI
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being used in a lot of different ways, which I'll
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talk about in just a minute, but these types of
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things also help customers. So, you don't just have this
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plain old self- service portal here, you have a virtual
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assistant guiding the customer through that journey and escalating where
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needed. Now, on- I mean, Robin... Oh, I'm sorry. Go
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ahead. One thing I wanted to point out, I really
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love the analysis and action is together. And so, to
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be listening to that voice of the customer and then
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have the action for both the employee and the customer
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such a powerful thing that oftentimes those are separated. So,
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I love the fact that those are together. Absolutely. Yeah.
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And so, just a couple other ones, agent facing just
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empowering agents with product recommendations using maybe some predictive analytics
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there, routing cost to the best agent at that moment
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in time, which I'll talk about in a minute, workforce
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engagement management to automate scheduling and build loyalty among your
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team, by doing things like gamification or really maybe trying
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to do more with coaching. Those types of things are
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real important to agents. You want to keep that turnover
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rate down and by the way, it has been inching
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up lately. So, we want to look at things like
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that for your agents. And then just analysis and action.
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types of tools and analyzing that information and making changes
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based on what your customers are telling you. If they're
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telling you it's taking too long to get out of
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self- service to a live agent, then you've got to
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fix something there. If they're not getting the information they
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need, if they're not getting the insight that they need,
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you've got to fix that. And then evaluating sentiment. And
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from that sentiment, is your customer happy? Is their customer
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angry? Make some predictions based on that or based on
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their previous history, make sure you're serving them in the
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way they want to be served. And even in shrine
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compliance, we see companies, they're transforming their customer experience by
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making sure their agents are doing what they're supposed to
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do. When they're talking to customers, are they saying the right
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things? Are they reading the right statements and so on? And
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then workforce optimization to actively improve agent performance. So, that's
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where you get into more of the agent analytics and
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making sure that your agents are actually improving consistently because
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you don't want to ever get into a dead spot
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as an agent. So, the other thing we want to
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talk about as you're looking at how to better serve
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your customers, how to transform that customer experience, you want to look
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at what channels you're using. So, it's very difficult to
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predict what channel, what is the channel for your customers.
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You don't know and it's going to change over time,
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different age groups like different channels. Maybe it's not even
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about the age group. Maybe it's about just what the person does
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or what device he or she feels more comfortable with.
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channels instead of fewer, and you want to integrate those
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channels. That's a big issue right now, companies are adding
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channels and they're not using omnichannel. They're not integrating those
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channels so that the context flows between the different digital
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and realtime channels always. So, a customer isn't frustrated like
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Charlie was in this example. So, you can see here
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on the left- hand side, just the interaction channels that
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were in use by companies at the end of fourth,
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quarter 2020 voice email, social media being the top ones.
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of both years from five channels on average per company,
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up to 6. 6 which doesn't seem like a huge
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jump when you think of the total number channels, it's pretty decent.
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And then if you look over on the right hand
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side, you can see which channels grew in the last
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year and by what percentage and which channels didn't. So,
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mobile business chat, that's your Facebook Messenger, your WeChat all
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those types of capabilities. Those grew quite considerably. So, a
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lot of people are communicating with businesses that way. Voice
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and video grew a lot. We talk about digital channels, but
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let's not ignore we need that real- time communication too.
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We need to talk to people. And especially last year
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with the pandemic, I think a lot of companies didn't
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want that. They were just wanting to pick up the phone.
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My best friend, her mom literally like just calls people
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in her bank and just ask questions because she wants
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to talk to somebody. But you got voice and video
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grew pretty substantially social media and in- app grew the
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areas that didn't web chat, SMS and email had been
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declining, web chat and SMS I think are really just
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kind of being overtaken by things like in- app by
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mobile business chat, most types of more contextual applications. But
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when we look at going beyond just the channels we
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also want to do things like add artificial intelligence to
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our portfolios because that's just going to continue to make
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things that much better, that much more automated, that much
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more intuitive and contextual. So, when you think of something
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like intelligent routing, which is a top area on our
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chart, by the way this chart looks at, it's sorted
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by what's going to be the most popular AI type
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by the end of 2022. So, the blue is what's
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in use now, green plan for 2021, then you've got
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plan for 2022 and an orange and so on. So,
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intelligent routing is number one, that's AI enabled intelligent routing.
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And you think about that and that really is about
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connecting people. It really does go back to the empathy
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equation because what you're trying to do there is connect
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your customer with the right agent at that second in
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time. So, by having context, you hopefully know or have
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some idea what this customer is looking for. What's the
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problem or the question or the reason for their interaction
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today. Maybe they started in a digital channel and need
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to escalate and AI can take that information. Look at
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the customer's history, look at agent ratings on the topic
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that customer is looking for. Look at the customer's buying
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patterns and so on. Who did the customer rate five
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stars last time? And try and connect that customer hopefully
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with the same agent he rated five stars last time.
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second. And so, that's just huge to improve CSAT. And
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at the same time you want to use agent analytics,
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that all goes together because by having agent analytics now
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which agent is doing well? Who's having a good day?
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Who's having a bad day? Who's doing really well in
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this product area right now that the customer is calling
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about? Great, let's send this customer to this agent. And
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then even AI enabled self- service yeah, that's a digital
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channel. That's a way that customers are helping themselves. But
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an AI virtual assistant is always going to be there
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to guide them through, maybe get them information, like in
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Charlie's example, find out if the paint contains lead. He
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couldn't find it on his own, but the digital assistant
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could come in there and do that for him. And
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if we did escalate to a live agent, so that's
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what AI enabled self- service can do. I'll talk a
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little bit about more that in a minute. And then
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also just the personalization. So, anything you're doing here can
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be personalized for the customer. And you see a lot more areas
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here that companies are doing when it comes to AI,
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chatbots, voice transcription, and a language translation. You've got NLP,
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you've got intelligent virtual assistant, which is basically a chat
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bot on the agent side, several different areas that companies are
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looking at to just totally improve that customer experience moving
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forward. And one of the ones I want to just
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spend a couple minutes on here is self- service because
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I'm really seeing this as just a big growth area
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right now. When you look at this chart alone, the
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blue bars show you what people told us in 2019,
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what did they say? What's their current percentage of transactions
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handled by self- service and then what were they projecting
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by the end of 2021, 2023 and
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2025? The green bars show you
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what they were saying a year later, look at how
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much growth we saw. So, this is all types of
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self- services is going in and doing an FAQ on
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a chatbot. This is going into a self- service knowledge
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base and trying to look online and get some answers
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to questions. But being able to bring in an AI
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virtual assistant there to help the customer through, and you can see
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that this is really growing considerably, but as you can
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see, as an analyst here about 33% were doing this
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and this year we've got it up to 34%. So,
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this year, this is going to be a big area of action
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for companies. And I want to caution you, don't try
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and go too fast, don't try and boil the ocean
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and do too much at once. You've got to put
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the brakes on for a minute and in most cases,
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companies have to look at their knowledge management basis. They
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need overhauls in most companies, they're outdated, typically in terms
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of the content, maybe it's all texts. Maybe it needs
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more multimedia content, more video, more photos, more interactions somehow.
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And it may maybe outdated in terms of the technology
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or the user interface, or even just the usability of
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it. Is it too slow? Does it need more capacity? They're
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not intuitive. I'm already talked about the multimedia content. And
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also big thing is just to improve the ability to
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search so that you're matching them and request to searches.
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And once you get a machine learning knowledge base in
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there paired with just your regular content knowledge base, this
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is going improve considerably because machine learning will be able
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to sail when someone types in this, they really mean
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this and we're going to guide them this way. So,
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that's actually really important. So, take your time here. Don't
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go too quickly because you'll end up shooting yourself in
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the foot and you'll go too fast into AI. And
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then if you have problems with it, they're going say, "
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Oh, we're not going to do this
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at all anymore." So, take your
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time here. This is very important to get right.
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And Robin, to that, I was in a session
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with a bunch of executive vice- presidents and they went
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around the table and they described to me their roles.
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And everybody, " I'm strategic this and I'm strategic that." And
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then one of the gentlemen said, " I'm in charge of
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this, that, and the other thing, I don't know, by the
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way, I also look after knowledge." Like it was an
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afterthought. And then after we went through the whole experience
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you're right, the roadmap, everybody turned to him and said, "
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Oh my God, Steve, you're the most important guy in
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this room because nothing happens without knowledge." Exactly. So, this
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elevation of knowledge as a strategic vehicle and it needs
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the care and feeding is really interesting. I love the
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fact that you brought it up here. Yeah, no, thanks.
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I agree though, and it's funny that the person himself
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didn't even look at himself as like, " Oh, this is
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vital." But just a few points as I'm doing my
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research and I talk to companies who are doing this
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well, I want to just leave you with a couple
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of points here on self- service, when you're doing self
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service, it does not mean without assistance. So, you want
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to have those virtual assistants and you want to train
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them to guide customers to resolve their issues. And also
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to put those hooks in to enable that escalation, to
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live agents at the appropriate points in the journey. And
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that may change over time. You may remove hooks, add
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hooks. You want to make sure that you're not seeing
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that customer frustration in there. If they're starting to type
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in all capital letters, you missed a hook. So, make
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sure you're really looking at how often and what areas
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of that whole journey in self service you need to
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escalate. You also want to make sure you're using analytics
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tools. I've talked about this enough, I think, but that
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will help you to see where customers are getting stuck,
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improve the content to address these questions over time and
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again, adding those additional escalation books and then making sure
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that you're integrating with other interaction channels. So, again, when
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calls are escalated, when a self- service interaction is escalated,
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the customer should see that entire customer journey and pick
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up right where they left off. Otherwise, we've all been
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there. It is so frustrating if you've been online for
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15 minutes, trying to find something, you have to explain
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everything all over again when you go to a live
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agent, either in web chat or a phone call. So,
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make sure that the agents can see that not only
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in the real time, but also historically. So, the agent
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can see, " Oh, wait, this Robin called a week ago
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about the same problem with her cable service, what's going
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on here? We've got to fix this."
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So, make sure you have that historical
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context as well. And then lastly actually not lastly, I've
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got one more slide after this. I want to just
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talk real quickly about how AI enabled chatbots are helping
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CX overall. So, when you think about a chat bot,
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everyone talks about these and there's so many different ways
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you can use them. It can be very basic Q
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and A, it can be overnight mailing address, product information,
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location hours. If you're here having a live person do
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this now, you're definitely at a competitive disadvantage and you're
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spending too much money, get to a chatbot to do
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that right away, fat nail. Then you can start moving on and
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do things like, " Okay, let's have my chat bot look
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up account balances or deal with warranty terms or transfer
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money, things like that." That gets a little bit more complex
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Q and A. And in either of those cases, you're
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using self service, you're using knowledge basis, things like that. Now,
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you can get even a little more complicated.
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I don't think it's all complicated. It's not
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really complicated. It's just a little more sophisticated as I
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guess I would say it. Where AI is assisting agents
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to deliver scripts, they're flagging keywords or routing calls to
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qualified agents. And that's where you get
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into some machine learning. And now
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you can get even more sophisticated and make recommendations. So,
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maybe a virtual assistant is going to make recommendations based
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on the customer history, her location, customer patterns like her
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on a predict where, and when that may need to
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be. When should that happen? If I'm a customer that's
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buying vitamins, maybe I, and I'm buying a 90- day-
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supply, pin me on 90 days so I know that
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I should do that again. So, then it becomes more contextual
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and predictive. So, I think the key
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thing here, when you think about chatbots,
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there's all different ways to use it. And this just touches on
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a few, but in any one of these scenarios, you've
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got to have that escalation to a live agent and
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also with the intelligent routing, make sure that customer experience
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is good. I may start on a self- service area
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and think I'm going to get my
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problem solved, but maybe I won't
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and I need to escalate to a live agent, give me
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somebody who understands what I'm looking for. And I'll rate
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that call, that whole interaction of five star. So, now
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getting to lastly, I want to just show you some
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data points. This is from real companies, real- world data,
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they're analyzing their before and after numbers, when they did
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a transformation project using on the top there AI enabled
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self- service or customer facing chatbots. Look at the numbers
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they're seeing when it comes to the revenue that was
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affected by their project, operational costs, customer ratings and agent
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efficiency. So, it's kind of crazy. They're good all the
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way across the board. I mean, I'd be thrilled with
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those numbers and ac to LTE deployment. And this is not
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just a success group, this is all companies overall average
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in our research. And what's really interesting, Robin, when I
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look at these numbers, that's not an expense of another
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number. So, people are increasing revenue, they're becoming more efficient, but
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not at the cost of satisfaction and customer effort. And
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so, doing this right and again, taking that design approach
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where I want to be empathetic, what's the job to
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be done? What's the journey to get there? And using
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technology to do that, what an incredible business results? So,
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thank you, Robin, for all that information. That was fantastic.
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Great information about how companies are transforming. And now, I'd
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like to turn our focus to Neil O'Donoghue. Neil, can
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you share with us some information about how do we
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take these concepts and how do we make them real?
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How do we turn them into a project plans and
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where do we start? Yeah, of course. Thank you, Charlie.
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That sounds great. So, my name's Neil O'Donoghue. I'm with
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the Genesys customer success and services organization. So, I'm going
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to talk to you about as Charlie said, this idea
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of helping our customers move quickly, move fast, adopt the
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technology, or we use the concept of walk, run, and
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fly. And Charlie talked about the empathy pillars listen, and
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learn, understand, and predict and act. And Swisscom is a great
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example, which I'm going to use to begin with just
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to make this real. And it plays to a lot of
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what Robin talks about. I love the fact that it
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really resonates that. So, let me introduce you to our customer
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here at Swisscom. Swisscom is one of Switzerland's most innovative and sustainable
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companies. They're a leader in providing mobile network, internet, digital
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TV, pretty much all digital channels for businesses and consumers.
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You see this great quote here from Rolf, the product
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manager of emerging channels and bots at Swisscom. The messaging
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bot that they implemented through Genesys resolved 10% of inquiries
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in the FAQ box or one in every two contacts
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and they maintained axles throughout. So, let me tell you,
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Swisscom is a longstanding Genesys customer, and they've had a
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footprint of some of the more traditional channels for a while.
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And they expanded that digital footprint, whether it's by introducing
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Apple business chat and WhatsApp as the main messaging channels, as well
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as chat bot. So, as I say,
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much of what Robin talked about,
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coincidentally, actually and this led to significant improvements in productivity
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and Swisscom is now adding to this with AI and
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Genesys predictive routing. So, Switzerland just taking a step back,
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Switzerland as a country, has one of the highest market
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penetrations of Apple devices worldwide and messaging, as we all
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know is the way to communicate in our private lives
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and it's fast becoming the communication method between customers and businesses
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also. So, Swisscom successfully reduced handling time and increased first
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contact resolution. Well, it's also improving NPS and agent satisfaction,
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which is really, really important and leveraging some of those
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similarly unrelated solutions which we don't talk about
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in the set, as I explained the
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methodology topic. Particularly the Switzerland as a country is high
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on the agenda there and Swisscom as an organization. And
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that's why they decided to implement chat bots. And their
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intent model, currently predicts customer intents with 80% accuracy. I
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can read some of the statistics on the slide here
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as I talk through. So, six months after the launch
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with 10 use cases live, they'd cover 16% of incoming
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messages in Apple based chat with chat bots. And that
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fast time, there was a very fast time to implement
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from the kickoff to the go live. They actually took
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10 weeks. And this is why I talked about this
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concept of walk, crawl and fly and moving quickly through
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that using some of the services, which I'll talk about
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today. They were not only able to deliver the Apple
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business chat, but also bringing the intent recognition and chat
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bots live very quickly in that timescale. And Swisscom was
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able to achieve a traditional voice channels, which as I
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said, they had for a while. Now, over the next
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two years, Swisscom aims to shift a substantial amount, more
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and more interaction volume from traditional channels, such as voice
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to messaging. What sets Swisscom apart from its competition is
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its ambition to always drive innovation and putting the customer
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really at the center of their decision making and everything
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that they do, which we love from an experience. As
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a service perspective, if you go back to some of
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the things that Charlie talked about, really putting the customer
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at the center of the experience. So, how did they
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do it? Swisscom chose a fast saw pilot with Genesys
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professional services involving close to a thousand agents initially. And
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Charlie talked about those empathy pillars all the way through
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to this continuing learning circle, they put that into their
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own words though methodology. And the pilot covered four stages.
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The first three were discover, the discovery with Genesys the
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advisory services, which we have to understand the key functions,
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the pain points, the benefits they wanted to bring. And
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then, what are the key metrics and KPIs they're going to
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focus on? The discovery number to predict and prepare the
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building and gathering that data. You talked about Robin, really
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understanding, where do you want to be?
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What's the key data? And once
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you've got that baseline moving forward, it's exactly what they
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did to predict and prepare, gathering that data and developing
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the right plan. And then for them to start small
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and get ready. So, we talk about walk and run,
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start small and get ready, select the routing destinations, and
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then continually test that to make sure it's right, fine
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tune it, see the effects and after those three phases
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learn, and for them go big, that was the plan
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expand with those use cases in a number of short
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sprints using an agile methodology to really scale up digital transformation.
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The suites called messaging architecture covers most reasons for contact
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now. The architecture uses plug- ins between the Genesys solutions
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and other third parties and back office system simplification, chatbots service, and
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it consists of three core aspects. There's the initial concierge,
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greeting, intent recognition, agent routing, and the FAQ answers to
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common questions and finally flow, ready solving customers' inquiries automatically
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with backend integrations. And Charlie, when you talked about the
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not so great explain that paint, it really, really made
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me think about this example of my integrated flow, understanding
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who the customer is and leveraging those different data sets.
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So, like many experiments, Swisscom achieved mixed results, but methods,
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original targets. As I said, some fantastic results in terms
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of, particularly of the bots, they met their goal of
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maintaining customer satisfaction, which is critically important. So, by messaging,
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improving the messaging quality, and some of the things I
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talked about is sort of 5% uplift in a first
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contact resolution is also very significant. And this led to
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a decrease in wait times, obviously, and out of the
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three possible entry points to the organization, to Swisscom, so, IVR,
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SMS, or web being those primary three, the majority of
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customers switch to an engagement model this with Swisscom through
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WhatsApp or Apple business chat when engaging through the company's
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contact us webpage or those channels, as I said. So, a
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really great example of, now I really like how it plays back
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to some of the things that Charlie and Robin you
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talked about. So, if I then go on to this
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idea and methodology of walk and then run. And how
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to get started with digital, and I think many organizations are
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already started or starting. So, we really talk about those
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empathy pillars, listen, understand and predict, act, learn. And learn doesn't
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stop there. It's a closed loop all the way back to
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listen to my evolving journey. So, establishing digital through digital
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transformation and discovery services, we've got a number of experts.
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As I mentioned, that Swisscom using advisory services. So, business
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consulting, business analysts, bringing those best practices and use cases
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to customers and helping to identify what's the right starting
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point for you as a customer and making this journey
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specific to you without having to reinvent the wheel with
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everything that we've done before, I mean hundreds or thousands
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of solutions that we've deployed globally for our customers. Now,
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one of the areas we've invested in heavily is use cases.
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What in common customer journeys and how'd you plug those
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use cases together to build out that journey? And what's
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the right starting point. And through reading that lesson phase, using
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those discovery services, that we start to map out what
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the correct use cases are for you as a customer at
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that time. But of course these services are all delivered now,
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virtually in calls and video calls and so on. And
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then we've moved and gone into that journey mapping and really something
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that baseline on your revenue. As I say, you talked
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about it, what are the key KPIs? Establishing where to
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focus initially, and then build upon that. You've really got
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to know where you're, where you've been, to then be
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able to measure performance beyond that. And then of course,
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deploying new digital channels. So, all the deployment services for whether
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it's chat, email, web, WhatsApps and so on. And one
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of the areas we see commonly is the requirement to
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interact or do integrate with third party solutions. We've got
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a number of connectors, expert app solutions, we call them.
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Things that we've built with Genesys, all things that are
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available through our foundry, our partner and Genesys marketplace, where
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there's a number of commonly used solutions like can use
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to connect to when your various CRM data reporting systems,
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which are really important in getting this end to end view
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of the customer and the data. And then of course,
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less than delivering those business outcomes. The way I've talked
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about that whiteline, a number of the services and this
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both more focused on the customer, but it's really important
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as Charlie and Robin talked about not to forget about
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the agent. The agent experience and leveraging some of the solutions
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we have that particularly the WAM solution set to ensure
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that the agents are correctly enabled, equipped, trained, they've got
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access to the right information. They can manage that closed loop
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through lesson to learn and deliver the best experience possible
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to bring the whole thing together. So, the walk getting
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started with digital. What we typically then find is customers
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have good success, then they want to expand. Or as
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I said the Swisscom, they had talked about going big after
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they had successfully delivered those initial pilots. The digital expansion,
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and really increasing that level of adoption, the efficiency across
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the solution for those customers, a broader range of customers,
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always with a focus on maintaining quality and increased customer
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satisfaction. So, ultimately optimizing really both sides of the equation.
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So, again, from a customer perspective, the ongoing evolution and
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really then mapping out what the next set of use cases
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are through that discovery, optimizing that discovery, maybe changing some
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things or evolving some things as the business needs change,
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or customer experiences change. And then we typically find it's in
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this space, in this next digital expansion phase, as part
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of the run that customers and partners really adopt more, scale more,
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with bots. Well, so because of that, we've created some specific bot
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quick start packages. So, again, we don't want customers and
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partners to after reinventing the wheel, we've done this before.
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And those and use cases exist, but maybe run some
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pilots quite common before full- scale deployment. And then, again,
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as we talked about, is blending that experience through digital
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with AI leveraging some of the solutions we have such
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as predictive engagement or predictive routing as we talked about in the
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Swisscom example. Analytics services Genesys is offering through professional services
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to help customers or partners pull together the various facets
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of data, but are gathered through these types of digital
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solutions, being able to manipulate that data, report on that
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data, interact with that data, and really use it to
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understand and therefore act, to improve and make the next
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steps of the journey, more tailored to realize business needs
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and the customer experiences that are being seen. And then
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again, from an agent experience perspective, continuing to invest in
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employees scriptic skills and the right level of proficiency and
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using AI through those solution sets and forecasting and scheduling
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gain to really maintain the end to end experience both
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customer and agent perspective, and then business intelligence within tax
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and analytics. So, there's a number of services available and
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as part of the customer success and services organization, we're
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really focused on quality delivery and those transformational experiences for
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the end customer. And those pillars listen and learn, understand,
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predicts and act. Because of that, we've created a number
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of services, as you can see on this wheel here
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ranging from the core contact center delivery requirements and needs
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with the solutions we have building upon that with digital
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and AI and WEM. And I think as we've articulated here,
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those three are at their most powerful when they come
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together in conjunction as one. Delivered as a solution where
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they can interact. Solutions are able to leverage each other
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with the agents managing that experience with the customers, a digital AI
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WEMs one. And building upon that in terms of education
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needs, the number of services for our partners as well
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who we're working with our end customers along with of
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course, technical support and more. It's a really comprehensive, full
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engagement model that's been built out, particularly with customers. Then who
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go to expand upon that with an agile periphery onwards.
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With that, for the next phase, I will hung back
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to Charlie. Who'll talk through fly. Yeah. Thanks, Neil. And
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one of the things I love about your slides, it
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is that transformational experiences delivered. Making it real. It's taking
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this concept and putting it into practice so that people
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can get those benefits. So, fantastic. Thanks so much, Neil. So,
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folks, we're coming to the close of our session here.
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Let's go back and think about fly. What is our
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destination? Certainly, we can't do all this at once, but
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it's important for us to set our roadmap. And so,
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as we think about engaging our customers, evolving the conversation
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and enhancing it with human experience, it all ties together
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like this. It's about engaging using AI to predict, to
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surface the right content, the right offers proactively, inbound and
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outbound across any channel, but we're not done there. We
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take the context and pass that forward, and pre- fills
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lots and evolve the conversation with voice bot, stat bots,
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intelligent applications to self- serve and when needed for the
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right opportunity enhance the experience with our human resources, leveraging
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like Robin said, intelligent routing to connect each interaction, each
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customer with the right resource. Equipping that agent with an
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omni- channel desktop, real- time knowledge, dynamically based on the
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conversation that's happening, process automation resource and coaching development tools.
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And like Robin said, reporting, capacity planning, workforce management, analytics
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to tie it all together. And so, really, yes, you
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can start with any one of these dots, but it's
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important to think about this from a design thinking and
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know that it is a holistic experience. And from Genesys
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perspective, our interest is not in being a point solution,
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it's orchestrating the entire experience. And so like, we've talked
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about, we talked a lot about empathy, so it's putting
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empathy in action. It's leveraging our platform to create experience
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as a service. That's our strategy, that's our story. And
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so, I'd like to thank you guys very much for
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joining us today. And Josh, I think I'll turn it
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back to you. You have some resources to share with
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the folks. Indeed I do. So, to wrap up today,
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I want to first thank everybody who attended it, as
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well as our presenters. So, as Charlie mentioned to wrap
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up, I want you to take advantage of the additional
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resources that are listed in the resource list just below
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the slides. Clicking will open up in a new tab
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and these resources expand on today's topic of digital channels.
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And we want to make sure you get to take
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advantage of that. If you miss out on clicking those
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today, don't worry, they will also be in your follow-
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up email with the on- demand recording within the next
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about with respect to Genesys contact center, et cetera. So,
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be sure to fill that survey out as it shows
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Robin, Neil, and the entire Genesys team, we thank you
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again for joining today's webcast channel surfing, mastering digital channels
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Meet the Speakers
Robin Gareiss
CEO & Principal Analyst
Metrigy
Charlie Godfrey
Senior Director
Genesys
Neil O’Donohue
VP, Professional Services
Genesys
