Category: Customer Experience

How Can Retailers Prepare For Uncertainty?

In a normal year, retailers would be deep in Black Friday, Christmas and the January strategy execution. This year, however, is anything but normal, making it nigh-on impossible to plan so far ahead of time – even in China, where...

High-Quality Customer Service in ‘The New Normal’ – Driven Entirely By the Cloud

The ongoing migration to cloud contact centres is continuing apace. Even before the pandemic, analyst, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for the Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) landscape was projecting that by 2022, CCaaS will be the preferred model of adoption...

TTEC’s AI Voted Disruptive Technology of the Year 2020

TTEC, a leading global Customer Experience as a Service (CXaaS) partner for many of the world’s most iconic and disruptive brands, has had its RealPlay™ AI-powered training technology named Disruptive Technology of the Year 2020 by Customer Contact Week. TTEC’s revolutionary...

International Customer Experience Awards: 2020 Finalists Revealed

The Finalists have been revealed for the International Customer Experience Awards, which is taking place live online this November. The third edition of the event will be taking place live online due to the current global health situation. Hosted by Awards...

The Importance of Empathy For Businesses and Leaders

In recent years, ‘empathy’ has become an increasingly relevant mantra for companies and business leaders. The emergence of COVID-19 earlier this year has served as an accelerant to the realisation of how important empathy is in both business and society,...

AIB Expands CX Programme with Medallia

Medallia, Inc., the global leader in experience management, announced that AIB, one of the largest commercial banks in Ireland, is expanding its customer experience programme with Medallia. AIB is boosting its customer experience measurement programme by leveraging Medallia’s digital measurement solution...

Three Key Considerations as Retailers Enter the 2020 Festive Period

The festive season is traditionally one of the most profitable times of the year, especially in retail. Between 2011 to 2019, Christmas spending in cash terms continued to rise each year. Meanwhile, last-minute shopping and the rise of in-store and...

Consumers Will Turn to Local Retailers This Holiday Season, Report Finds

Over half of global holiday shoppers plan to shop local during the 2020 holiday period, according to new research from Rakuten Advertising, the global leader in performance marketing, media and consumer insights. The research, conducted among 8,673 adults worldwide, found that...

Putting the Customer Back In the Driving Seat: Why Customer Experience Has Never Been More Important For Survival

With the UK officially entering a recession for the first time in 11 years, it’s fair to say that many organisations are facing an uncertain future. Sales and revenues have been rocked in recent months and, with the economy still struggling to...

Applying emotional intelligence in CX: An interview with Sandra Thompson

Applying empathy became a practice to understand and connect with customers. While it is beneficial to put in the effort to satisfy your customers’ needs, what is more, important is to have them coming back. Exceeding customer expectations is one...