At Marketing Week’s Supercharged conference yesterday, brands including Virgin Holidays, Age UK and Ikea talked about the role AI is playing in improving the customer experience, as well as the challenges the new tech throws up.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/05/02/artificial-intelligence-supercharged/
Microsoft principal founder Bill Gates once said, “If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.” That statement certainly made a lot of sense when the famous philanthropist and business magnate utter those words in the 90s. However, today, being on the internet is not enough to ensure the survival of your business.
http://customerthink.com/5-critical-components-of-information-technology-that-will-make-or-break-your-business/
With a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) dawning upon us, it’s an incredible time for customer experience, with humongous benefits to the customer and ultrafast customer service. As AI technology matures, forward-thinking enterprises are plugging in conversational AI in their strategic investment roadmaps to leverage it for their customer service function. In fact, Gartner predicts that “conversational AI-first" will supersede "cloud-first, mobile-first" as the most important, high-level imperative for the next ten years.
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/how-conversational-ai-is-driving-the-next-generation-customer-experience-powered-by-chatbots-and-assistants-3987595.html/
So, what can brands do to fix the customer experience and prevent customers from going to a competitor? The answer is probably much simpler than you think: Take the intimacy, connectivity and conversational experience from the in-person/offline world and inject it into the digital world.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/social-media-is-not-a-customer-experience-solution/
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an everyday part of our lives. We use it at work and at home - often without even realizing it. AI is evolving now in all industries especially in the banking sector, 2018 will showcase many projects and applications that are adopting AI to increase their performance and security in all terms.
http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2018/Mar/19/using-ai-to-enhance-customer-experience/