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Tech Talks in 20 focuses on the hottest tech topics in customer experience right now. When we talk tech, we cover everything from supercharging the customer experience with AI, to the latest tech trends in customer service and workforce engagement management, to what’s hot with bots, and to journey analytics and experience orchestration—plus, we reveal the data behind the latest CX tech trends—all in about 20 minutes.
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
S4 Ep 8The future of CX tech in financial services
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
The lines are blurring between the branch, contact center, and digital channels for financial services firms. Customers expect seamless journeys, contextually relevant interactions, and knowledgeable advisors who provide personalized service based on deep customer understanding. These expectations are often driven by their experiences with organizations in other industries. Nearly two-thirds of 61% of banking executives say continuous innovation is raising customer expectations — and 45% say they’re failing to keep pace with those expectations.
In this episode of Tech Talks in 20, David Porter, Managing Director, Global Banking Industry, examines the evolving CX technology landscape in financial services. He also shares his advice on how financial services firms can make the greatest impact with their CX technology investments now and over the next few years.
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
S4 Ep. 7 Horizon trends: Technology convergence
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Orchestrating the experiences consumers expect today requires more than even the most robust customer experience platform on its own. Organizations must integrate channels, data and systems to create personalized, seamless end-to-end journeys and continually optimize them. In this episode, Joe Wheeler, CEO of CX/Digital and best-selling author of "The Digital-First Customer Experience," explores how technology convergence is enabling this in ways never before imaginable — opening opportunities to reinvent the service experience so completely that by 2030, it could look nothing like it does today.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
S4 Ep. 6 Take an outside-in perspective on knowledge management
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Focusing on knowledge management simply as a way to house and share content misses an opportunity to use it as a more strategic element of the customer and employee experience. When knowledge content is fresh, rich and engaging — created with the customer and employee in mind — it can be a powerful competitive asset.
In this episode of Tech Talks in 20, Harshali Desai, Principal Product Manager, Knowledge, at Genesys, explores how to think about knowledge management from the outside in, balancing the experiences organizations want to deliver through knowledge with the experiences customers and employees expect. She also discusses how reimagining knowledge management can streamline journeys and improve business outcomes.
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
S4 Ep. 5 Best practices for using chatbots to enhance the customer journey
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Even as consumers’ use of bots increases, their satisfaction with the experience has declined. In fact, consumers are less satisfied with chatbots than all other service interaction channels, according to “The state of customer experience.”
In this episode, Mitch Mason, Principal Product Manager, Genesys Conversational AI, provides easy ways to improve the bot experience, as well as practical tips on using bots to streamline customers journeys, improve satisfaction and increase issue resolution.
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
S4 Ep. 4 Blending AI for CX
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
More than three-quarters of senior executives agree that AI will be a critical part of their customer experience (CX) operations in the coming years, finds research from Economist Impact. And 80% say they’re already seeing gains in customer and employee satisfaction ratings and loyalty by using AI improve their experiences.
In this episode, Rahul Garg, VP Product, AI and Conversational AI at Genesys, explains how organizations are using conversational, generative and predictive AI to optimize the customer experience and enhance the employee experience. He also predicts the next big thing in AI for orchestrating engaging and empathetic experiences.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
S4 Ep. 3 How Unisys moved to cloud with speed and agility
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Unisys is a global technology solutions company dedicated to helping organizations drive innovation and excel at customer experience. The company recently reimagined its own customer journey by moving to a cloud-based customer experience platform — to better address what matters most to its clients and their users. What might have been a complex implementation was simplified with extensive planning, collaboration and communication, as well as taking an agile, test-and-learn approach. In this episode, Aron Meyer, Digital Workplace Solutions Architect at Unisys, explains how the company was able to eliminate seven legacy platforms and move more than 100 client organizations from across 12 global locations to that cloud-based customer experience platform.
Friday Jul 21, 2023
S4 Ep.2 Knowledge management and the customer experience
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Research finds that customers want a fast, first-interaction most when contacting an organization for a service or support issue. And customer experience leaders say one of their agents’ biggest frustrations is a lack of data to quickly resolve customers’ queries in the moment. Knowledge management can help with both.
When organizations use knowledge management as a single source of truth across channels, valuable information is always available — for issue speedy issue resolution through agent-assisted or self-service, for real-time personalization, for agent enablement. In this episode, Coty Smith, Director of Digital Innovation at Genesys, discusses the invaluable role knowledge management plays in customer and employee experiences, and how organizations can use it to create a steel thread of dynamic, pervasive insight across customer-facing functions. He also examines the role artificial intelligence plays in improving employees’ and customers’ access to knowledge.
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
S4 Ep 1 Ascension “Spring Cleaning” Strategy for a Successful Migration to Cloud CX
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Too often, organizations moving from on-premises customer experience (CX) technology to a cloud-based CX platform try to replicate their current operations — rather than taking the opportunity to reinvent them. In this episode, Brian T. Jones, Senior Specialist, Technology, AP Digital Care Communications, at Ascension Technologies, explains how the IT arm of Ascension Health was able to make improvement like downsizing to one dynamic call flow by being open to the art of the possible.
Thursday May 11, 2023
S3 Ep. 15 OVO Energy builds better bots faster with a robust bot automation strategy
Thursday May 11, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
The best customer service bots deliver on consumers’ preference for fast, first-interaction resolution. And when an interaction is too complex, seamless integration enables the bot to transfer a consumer and the context of their interaction to an agent.
These boss bots are essential as consumers’ use of chatbots continues to rise, but their satisfaction with the experience declines. According to the benchmarking report “The State of Customer Experience,” 38% of consumers interacted with chatbots for a service interaction last year, up from one-third in 2021. But the percentage of consumers who were highly satisfied with their bot experience declined from 25% to 21% in that same timeframe.
In this episode of Tech Talks in 20, Lucas Woodward, a software engineer at OVO Energy, joins us to explain how to use automation to build better bots, faster. He’ll also reveal how he automates and tests bot integration with other CX technologies.
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
S3 Ep. 14 Live from Enterprise Connect 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
The hottest topics of conversations at Enterprise Connect 2023 revolved around what’s next for artificial intelligence (AI) in customer experience, Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) and employee experience (EX).
This episode, live from the conference, dives into the top AI, CCaaS, and EX themes at the show. We'll also talk about findings from the recent Genesys report “The State of Customer Experience” around those themes and shared during a show floor "Tech Talks" presentation.