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It Comes Down to Empathetic Communication and Human Connection
Darren Stavely, a 20-year financial services industry veteran who is obsessed with customer experience and solving big problems, passionately discussed getting back to the basics of remarkable customer service at the 20th Anniversary Customer Contact East: A Frost...
Your First 100 Days as a CX Leader
Congratulations! You’ve become the leader of a customer experience (CX) organization. Exciting times, right? When I first started leading CX teams, I learned quickly that it’s best not to start making broad proclamations right off the bat. The first 100 days are about...
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Peek Under the Hood: Anatomy of Basic Conversational AI and IVAs
Think about it. 20 years ago, the model for customer service meant giving consumers a toll-free number to call for support. In the years since,...
Moving from Chaos to Efficiency: Solving Labor Capacity Issues in Contact Centers with Human-in-the-Loop AI
Contact centers play a pivotal role in the modern business landscape, serving as the frontline of customer interactions. However, labor capacity...
HEADLINER VIDEO – Investing in CX Priorities to Generate Customer Lifetime Value
Presented by Jermaine Edwards Growth Advisor and Creator of The Customer Advantage
Delivering on Your Brand Promise: Insights from Customer Experience 2023: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
Design and Deliver Your Brand Promise was the theme of Customer Experience 2023: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange held in Nashville,...
THE FROST & SULLIVAN CC AWARDS ARE BACK!
After a short hiatus, the “People’s Choice Awards” of the Customer Service industry is back: The CC Awards! The CC’s identify and honor companies...
Withstanding Economic Uncertainty with Conversational AI
When it comes to the customer experience (CX) industry, there’s another looming challenge to add to the burgeoning list for contact centers and...
Your Employee is Your First Customer
Yesterday I called a customer service number for a company that I do business with. Lots of questions for them and some confusion on my end. The...
Crowdsourcing Tactical Solutions to Your Most Vexing Customer Challenges – Part 2
At the 18th Annual Customer Contact East: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange, participants chose between six interactive brainstorming...
Executive Brief | Planning for Shifting Demographics
Insights into the impact of deaf people’s communication strategies and technology innovations adopted by the public today.
Crowdsourcing Tactical Solutions to Your Most Vexing Customer Challenges –
Key “Fixes” from the 18th Annual Customer Contact East: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange
Read on for key ideas and suggestions generated from the first three sessions -great insights and ideas you can implement right now.
What is Winnable? Strategic Priorities for Transformative Customer Experiences
Customer experience (CX) has become a central focus for companies due to its overarching view of the customer’s journey as well as their perceptions of your brands.
Executive Insight-Strategic Partnering to Attract Top Talent
Abstract: Attracting and retaining talent is tough in any industry but, it can be especially challenging in the contact center space. The anatomy...
EXECUTIVE INSIGHT – Strategies and Tactics for Doing Hybrid Right
At the 19th Annual Customer Contact East: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange event, Wilson Nieves shared statistics and insights about...
Four Ways to Make Your Contact Center Integral to Business Growth
When service is in a silo far from marketing and sales, customer journeys become disconnected. And that hurts the customer experience (CX). Gaps...
A Video Presentation from the 19th Annual Customer Contact East: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange | BEST PRACTICE – Teaming Up to Raise NPS
Presented by: Brian Wolfe Vice President, Global Customer Experience JBL, a division of HARMAN International Abstract: JBL’s Consumer Division has...
Ideas and Opportunities Flowing from the Changing Contact Center Landscape
The 19th Annual Customer Contact East: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange, held April 23-26, 2023 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, revealed...
The Importance of Strategic Selling within Customer Service – Seizing the opportunity for tighter collaboration between Customer Service and Sales
During this time of ongoing change at both macro and micro levels, keeping your Customer Service and Sales teams actively partnered and engaged has...
Your Long-Term Strategy Begins with a Plan
Presented by: Janet Solomon Vice President, Client Operations/Contact Center Solutions Fiserv
Executive Brief – Leadership in an Evolving Contact Center Ecosystem
The one constant in the contact center ecosystem is change. The key to success is to have a methodology that blends time tested strategies with the ever-shifting needs of the business.
Three Skill Sets Leaders Need to Prioritize Today
Today, transformative skill sets are needed to build teams that are cohesive, productive, profitable and happy. (Not necessarily in that order). If you have blind spots, you, your team, and your organization will struggle to thrive in a business climate that is constantly changing.
An Excerpt from the 18th Annual Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange Chronicles
Jasmine Green shared her organization’s approach to creating a more customer-centric culture and some of the methods used to build programs and involve associates in the process. This included building a portal where employees submitted ideas for improvement.
The Three Shifts of Customer Leadership
What are the most essential shifts a key account director needs to make in order to see industry-leading customer results in their business? The answer is not doing more activity or more technology. It’s a shift in perspective. Why?
Transforming the Customer Experience for Deaf Consumers
“Always remember that everyone with whom you have a relationship has an invisible sign on their forehead that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Treat...
Activating the Digital Mothership: Retaining Top Talent in the Modern Era of Work
New Normal. Extraordinary circumstances. Unprecedented. These are all the words we’ve heard applied to the last three years of work life. This...
Crowdsourcing Solutions to Your Most Vexing Customer Service Challenges
When thought leaders from TMX Finance, Dun & Bradstreet, Baxter Healthcare and others gathered in Tucson, Arizona for the 18th Annual Customer...
How Baxter Healthcare Launched a Successful, Patient-Friendly Telehealth Program
There was a gap in the dialysis industry with regards to additional support for patients during the first 90 days of starting dialysis. Baxter identified this as an opportunity to utilize telehealth technology along with RPM through our connected devices to provide additional support for patients during their first 90 days on dialysis.
A Fireside Chat – What It Takes to Lead with Agility
Presented by: Natalie Beckerman and Alpa Shah Senior Vice President Global Vice President...
Frost & Sullivan Shares Global Team’s Customer Experience Insights
Highlights from recent research and discussions conducted by the Frost & Sullivan Global CX team.
The Customer Engagement Leadership Council Announces 2023 Critical Issues
Frost & Sullivan’s Customer Engagement Leadership Council, a member-driven, business leadership network for senior-level executives in the customer experience, customer care and contact center industries, recently announced the Critical Issues of focus for members in 2023.
The Chaos of the Customer
Are you trying to solve that seemingly unsolvable CX problem? Is everything about your customer behavior seemingly random? Perhaps…it’s not all that random at all.