Driving Into the Future with Cloud and AI

To embrace a new front-office structure, marketing, sales, and service executives will need new processes, policies, capabilities and skills that address the six must-haves - data, analytics, automation, organizational structure, metrics, and culture

Fremont, CA: As the customer service sector matures, customers are increasingly expecting more immaculate services from organizations. A large number of people quit shopping from a brand or move to a contender primarily because of a single lousy encounter. In order to meet this increasing demand for perfection, employing the right people is not enough. Firms need to embrace new customer support technologies in order to stay ahead of the pack.  

Customer support technology typically should comprise of a range of software and hardware solutions. This can contain both technological developments on the customer-side and internally on the agent facet.

For example, starting with cloud-enabled customer-support software, firms can keep track of the platforms actively used by users. This omnichannel approach allows them to manage all platforms from a single screen. This will make tracking customer conversations simpler and improve transparency, enabling agents to provide support irrespective of their location.

In addition, with a chatbot, customers can receive answers in real-time and from within the knowledge-base effortlessly. Organizations can consider empowering the staff with assist-bots that can establish conversational workflows to settle difficult issues easily.

Therefore, we can conclude that thinking AI and cloud first is key, especially if you want to increase agility. Personalized experiences are what customers are seeking, and leveraging the data in the CRM software to analyze prior conversations, purchase history and customer-behaviour will further help meet customer expectations. Alterations at the front-end will lead the journey in the coming times. It’s here, after all, that the enterprise meets the marketplace and the connected customer. To embrace a new front-office structure, marketing, sales and service executives will need new processes, policies, capabilities and skills that address the six must-haves - data, analytics, automation, organizational structure, metrics and culture. Leaders don’t wait to be interrupted; they prepare for the future with proactive disruption of their own.