For decades, service has been relegated to the end of the customer lifecycle. It was reactive, transitional, transactional, and traditional. A “fix something that’s gone wrong” function, stuck at the ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. “The solutions we have today will soon not be enough to provide unparalleled customer satisfaction. Information technology continues ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a customer experience consultant and customer service trainer. Oct 07, 2020, 05:58pm EDT Oct 08, 2020, 12:51pm EDT This ...

The days of routine query handling in the call center are coming to an end. The next step is to operate the call center as a problem solving unit using network judgment techniques. Some years ago when ...

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Too many companies launch new products or services without a process for deeply understanding what their customers truly need. They make assumptions, rely on limited feedback, or develop ideas based ...

When T-Mobile first launched its AI chatbot, it disabled screenshots to avoid users posting negative critiques on Reddit.

A couple of months back, the DSL at my house fizzled over a weekend, with service sporadic to none. On a Sunday, I called Verizon tech support, and the customer service technician walked me through ...

Loretta Gromo wanted to do something special to celebrate her wedding anniversary, so she decided to book a Royal Caribbean cruise to mark 25 years of marriage to her husband, Bob. After 34 years as ...

Woolworths is introducing semantic search capabilities into its online shopping portal to catch a trend that is seeing consumers increasingly use ecommerce sites as problem-solving tools. Semantic ...

Hilton's CEO said there's one surefire way to build loyalty with a customer. Christopher Nassetta, the executive who has held the hotel chain's reins since 2007, said solving problems for his guests ...