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 ...

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 ...

Food-delivery service Uber Eats will offer refunds but won’t actually correct what went wrong. Customer service has been tricky for companies whose services rely on third parties and gig workers. In ...

Chatbots aren’t cool, and their usefulness is debatable. Here’s how we can do better with AI than a chatbot. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, ...

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 ...

Your customer service goal should be to never say a blunt “no.” Instead, make every effort to arrive at a “yes” for each customer interaction. In the realm of customer service, a knee-jerk “no” ...

We all understand why companies want to offload their customer service to bots and hard-to-find remote “representatives” distributed all over the world: it saves money. The last resort of customer ...

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Customers often prefer to find solutions to their problems themselves rather than having to speak with a customer service agent. Customers often prefer to find solutions to their problems themselves ...

Many call center agents grow up in the U.S. and speak perfect English but are regularly subjected to verbal abuse from bigoted Americans because of their accents, Serebryakov says. Despite Garcia ...