customer journey

Your contact center agents’ journey plays a critical role in customer experience Often what should be obvious is not all that obvious If we had to think through every possible scenario for every decision, we probably wouldn’t get much done in a day. While no decision is made with certainty, ev…

AI is shaping the future of customer experiences and the contact center. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a lot of excitement and there are good reasons for this. According to Forbes, 50% of IT professionals believe artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing a role in cloud com…

Large enterprises are a complex beast. Merely mapping the buying process as well as the customer journey is not only complicated, but also varies across different vertical segments and is consistently multi-faceted and longer in duration than SMB and midmarket enterprises. In the previous two blog p…

Nowadays, customer engagement is almost synonymous with digital engagement. While there’s some truth to this (and one of the reasons why Cisco recently launched the Digital Accelerator for Service Providers), it fails to encompass the entire customer journey (particularly for midmarket and enterpris…

Jim Croce’s posthumous #1 hit “Time In a Bottle” was noteworthy for two reasons – one, it had a waltz tempo, and two, only three instruments were used to produce the song. More importantly – Croce had it right when he penned “but there never seems to be enough to do the things that we want to do, on…

As Daniel O’Connell and his colleagues at Gartner report in their Unified Communications Worldwide 2017 Forecast Overview, “small-business cloud telephony adoption will nearly double from 2016 through 2021, to reach 45% of small businesses.” He also explains that “small businesses will adopt cloud v…

How Cisco is using AI to enhance customer experiences My team and I are excited to be participating at Google’s Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week where we are announcing enhancements to some of the solutions we are building with Google for our joint customers. At the conference, we wi…

Using the power of cloud analytics and AI to enhance your customer experiences You’re in a taxi on your way to the airport and your connecting flight back home has just been cancelled due to bad weather conditions in that city. Your airline app sends you a notification message, an email, a phone cal…

March 18-21, 2019 | Orlando, FL On March 19th, Cisco will launch an entirely new kind of intelligence that will forever change how we connect and collaborate with people. This history-making event will take place at Enterprise Connect 2019, the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise commun…