About This Report
37% of UK contact centres and 22% of US contact centers report that they use virtual agents / AI-enabled chatbots to offer self-service to their customers, with these figures growing rapidly.
But self-service doesn’t begin and end with chatbots.
Driven by poor experiences with the live phone channel during the pandemic, many customers have become familiar with using multiple self-service applications, both on the website and on their phone.
With self-service being a major investment priority – along with AI, CRM and omnichannel – this report shows businesses how to serve customers 24/7 while managing their costs and maintaining the customer experience.
“The Inner Circle Guide to Self-Service” investigates:
- The uptake of virtual agents / chatbots and their effect on service costs and performance
- Businesses’ current use and future plans for self-service
- How to develop a successful self-service strategy and prove ROI
- What’s driving customer preference and uptake of automated service
- The impact of AI and what will self-service look like in 5 years’ time.
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In this Report
Drivers for Self-Service
- Increased profitability
- Live contact avoidance
- Automated cross-selling / upselling
- Improved performance
- Meeting customer demand
- Channel preferences
- Channel usage
- 24/7/365 immediate service
Current and Future Use of Self-Service
- Web self-Service
- Virtual agents and chatbots
- Mobility & smartphones
- Visual IVR and video
- Telephony self-service
- DTMF (Touchtone) IVR
- Automated speech recognition
- Voicebots
The Building Blocks of Self-Service
- Suitability of self-service
- The role of AI in self-service
- Opportunities for AI-enabled self-service
- Knowledge bases
- Handling self-service exceptions
- Customer inhibitions
Implementing Self-Service Successfully
- Implementing AI-enabled self-service
- Success and pitfalls
- What sort of measurable benefits should we expect from AI-enabled self-service?
- The future of AI-enabled self-service