“By 2020, it is estimated that 85 percent of all customer interactions will take place without a human agent”. To improve their customer experience, speed up the process of service recovery and cut costs, services management increasingly starts to rely on automatized solutions, so-called “service robots” to handle the customer interactions. In a recent research …
The advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in today’s world of connected things and connected people has made it possible for firms to harvest lots of real-time customer data – information from people and objects, and indeed everything. This is compounded by individuals spending much of their time generating data for others about our lives, placing …
In a recent blog post Analytics in Services: Actions versus Talk, we reviewed how companies are applying big data and analytics for both internal and external uses. That review led to a survey and executive panel discussion at the November 2015 Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Annual Compete Through Service Symposium where we further explored adoption rates, challenges, and lessons learned.
