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The blending of AI with customer-centricity – the Bajaj Allianz General Insurance way

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to re-imagine the customer journey, orchestrate critical data and decision points, and introduce straight-through in most processes.  ...

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Press Release – The Bharat Connect Marks Its First Anniversary, Quickly Expanding as India’s Only Community Group That Serves the Customer Service Industry

Co-founded by ClearTouch, the organization experienced substantial growth in its first year to more than 600 members, offering numerous industry articles and webinars CHENNAI, India — (BUSINESS ...

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Illness to wellness – the patient care journey is fast-changing

Good health is a Journey. Every individual must be the CEO of their health and be armed with information to make informed decisions. The biggest stakeholder of good health is the individual’s fa...

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Focus on the ‘C’ word in Customer Service

I want to bring your attention to two statements that I keep hearing about customer service.   Customers do not have a choice when it comes to customer service. Customer service is a big-ticket cost i...

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5 reasons why you have to look at the cloud for your contact center

Two-thirds of the contact centers moved to the cloud in the last 12 months. The contact centers moved to the cloud to keep their floors running as a response to the pandemic.    That being said, the c...

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The ubiquitousness of cloud contact centers – the accidental discovery

When the pandemic struck in 2020, all of a sudden, contact centers had to figure out a way to make agents’ work from home. Most on-premise solution providers couldn’t react to that situation, as they ...

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Illness to wellness – improving patient care using technology

In Part 1 Blog (the patient care journey is fast-changing), we spoke about how providing and ensuring patient care is critical. In this part, we will talk about how you can improve patient care using ...

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You pick up the phone! I can reach a real person.

I was honestly surprised that my company, CD Baby, was such a runaway success. But I was even more surprised to find out why, said Derek Sivers.    CD had lots of powerful, well-funded competitors, bu...

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Customer touchpoint effectiveness – what should you measure?

You run a customer service function, and you want to offer the best possible experience to your users. The demography of your users ranges from 18 to 70 years across geographies.    To address their d...

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Building intelligence at the customer touchpoints: real-life experience

My bank blocked my card, and the reason given was that I did not submit my KYC (Know Your Customer) documents for renewal. I was asked to submit those documents by mail to reactivate the card.    I pr...

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Measuring touchpoint effectiveness in customer experience

As a brand, you can influence some of the touchpoints, and some are beyond your influence. I will take a moment to define what a touchpoint is.    Touchpoints are channels that your customers encounte...

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What do the Customer Experience (CX) leaders do differently?

Leading-edge companies outperformed lagging companies on business outcomes like profitability, quality, growth, market share, and customer retention rate. Source: HBR    Seven out of ten leading-edge ...

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Do customers have a choice in their customer experience with brands?

I recently wanted to switch my Internet connection from one location to another. I called up the customer care facility and gave my request. This process took me about 20 minutes.    The service provi...

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Is Customer Experience (CX) the new brand differentiator?

Gone are the days when people competed on product’s capabilities and pricing alone. Today’s customers have thousands of overwhelming choices, making purchasing decisions challenging to choose.    The ...

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How do you make your life and the lives of those around you better – the customer service way!

Sales are down, the competition is brutal, and we have zero chance of hitting our year-end profit target if we don’t bring down our costs.    This is what your CEO tell you when you meet with him. He ...

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Frictionless customer experience – should this be your goal?

In 2016, an estimated $4.6 trillion of merchandise was left in abandoned eCommerce shopping carts The US economy loses $3 trillion in productivity annually due to excess bureaucracy China’s economy as...

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The contactless approach to customer service

In the last year, most things have moved remote and online as far as customer service is concerned. Agents working from home will be the norm from now on, and the customers would want to get in touch ...

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Agent Experience is an essential piece in the customer experience journey.

There is very little room for error when it comes to customer experience.   In 2021, as is the case with every year, consumers will care even more about the customer experience than they did earlier w...

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Customer experience journey – it is about how you respond to a negative experience!

I was working for an organization where we had many customer relationships. After being with us for two years, one of the customers decided to look at other providers for their needs.   When we i...

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Zoho is leading the pack in moving to Tier – 2 and Tier – 3 cities. What can you learn from them?

Zoho has been running their development and support centers from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities for many years ago.   They started a development center in Tenkasi in 2011 that develops some of Zoho’s produc...