Tag: Customer Experience

This week in CX: the digital revolution in travel, finance & customer service

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we explore the evolving landscape of airport customer experience, the benefits and challenges of CX consulting, and how Zoom’s AI-driven workflows are transforming digital interactions.We’re also...

Call centre agents: Saving lives and building careers, busting contact centre myths

There’s a common image of a call centre as battery a farm for overworked keen young things, following the scripts to earn a modest crust. That image may include fielding hundreds of phone enquiries each day, dealing with difficult issues,...

Adobe paints a new canvas for customer experience with AI

At the Adobe Summit, Adobe unveiled tools designed to enhance customer experiences through AI-driven personalisation and seamless engagement across all touchpoints. “Delivering a unified customer experience requires a much more agile and streamlined operation that solves real customer pain points,...

GoTo’s AI receptionist will take your call now

As the every-platform-has-to-have-AI battle heats up, more contenders arrive daily in our news inbox. Today’s turnout alone will see another half-dozen services unveiled in the coming weeks. Entering the fray today is GoTo, offering a Connect AI Receptionist, presumably for...

Fast food meets the future: Yum! Brands partners with NVIDIA for AI innovation

Yum! Brands, the parent company behind KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Habit Burger Grill, is partnering with NVIDIA to bring advanced artificial intelligence into the restaurant industry on an unprecedented scale. As the world’s largest restaurant company with over...

Braze enhances personalised shopping experiences with Shopify integration

Braze has announced a strategic partnership with Shopify, introducing new integrations and features that enhance personalised shopper interactions. These advancements give brands real-time insights into customer preferences, allowing them to craft targeted campaigns that deepen engagement and strengthen customer relationships.The...

Google pays $28M for bias, government slashes credit cards, and companies fail on burnout

Google settles a racial bias lawsuit for $28MGoogle has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging racial bias in pay and career advancement. The lawsuit, representing over 6,600 employees, claimed that Hispanic, Latino, Native American,...

Right answers, right users: Talkdesk AI tailors knowledge delivery  

Talkdesk has launched Talkdesk Knowledge Creator, a feature designed to automate and enhance knowledge management for customer service teams. By utilising generative AI, the tool eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional knowledge bases by identifying gaps and generating reliable, up-to-date information...

Financial services lead in customer support, while retail falls behind

New research from WhatsApp business communications provider Esendex reveals stark differences in customer service across industries, with financial services ranking highest and retail performing the worst. The study assessed key factors like wait times to speak with a human representative...

Zoom AI goes agentic: workflows transformed across the platform

Zoom has unveiled major AI updates, evolving its AI Companion from a personal assistant into an agentic tool that streamlines workflows across Zoom Meetings, Team Chat, Docs, Phone, Whiteboard, and more. The AI Companion now executes tasks, manages multi-step actions,...