Harnessing Corporate Knowledge In A Time of Digital Disruption

The entry to the market of disruptive “born digital” companies has both changed consumers’ expectations and disrupted incumbents’ business models, paving the way for a generalized Digital Transformation momentum across companies worldwide. At the heart of this disruption lies a superior ability to analyze data and to continuously deliver actionable information and superior customer experiences.

Vmoso Chatbot by Optimist

Vmoso Chatbot by Optimist enables companies to provide rapid, automated assistance to customers within the context of their ongoing relationship with the customer.

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Using the Optimist software, the chatbot can be taught how to handle requests for any type of industry.

 

In this video we’ll see how Galaxy Airlines uses the chatbot to help John, who’s planning a short trip to Los Angeles with his family.

 

John starts by asking the chatbot for some information about access to the VIP lounge. Using a bot to answer frequently asked questions like this saves time and cost for the customer service team, and gives the customer a faster response.

 

But the chatbot can also help with the more complicated task of booking a flight. Based on John’s requests, the chatbot is able to suggest an itinerary, and then revise it in response to John’s replies.

The chatbot can also upsell – so  offers to help John book ground transportation for when he arrives in LA.

 

By automating the response to frequently asked questions and assistance with the booking process, Galaxy Airlines reduces its customer service cost and delivers a faster response to its customers.

 

And because this all takes place within the Vmoso customer service channel, the discussion is retained for future reference for  both the chatbot and customer service staff.

 

Customer Experience Management

 

Customers’ expectations of companies are changing. The “thanks for your email, we’ll reply in 7 working days” response simply isn’t good enough these days. Customers not only expect a faster response, they expect consistency across the many different channels through which they might make contact.

This has required organizations to improve the way they handle customer interactions, both before and after a sale. Such programs have become known as “Customer Experience Management”, often abbreviated to CXM or CEM.

Gartner define CXM as “the practice of designing and reacting to customer interactions to meet or exceed customer expectations and, thus, increase customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy”.

So while the focus of CXM is on the customer interaction, it can have widespread implications for a company’s internal processes and technologies, and the way sales and customer service teams work together.

In business to consumer relationships, the main focus for CXM has been on ensuring social media channels are integrated with traditional email and phone routes to CRM. This “social CRM” works well when the answer to one customer’s question is relevant to another customer, and when customers answer each other’s questions. Social media is a great place to do this, because of the critical mass of customers there.

But platforms like Facebook and Twitter are ill-suited for more complex customer interaction. The two main categories of this are:

Personalized long-term consumer relationships – for example when a consumer needs to talk to their bank, insurance company or energy supplier

Business to business relationships – where several people from the customer need to collaborate with several people from the supplier.

In both cases, privacy is required making social media an inappropriate platform. And continuity is required, with the customer expecting the company to remember all their activity leading up to, and after the initial sale. This may well represent many years of interactions.

Vmoso enables CXM by:

Providing a platform for customer engagement, and

Enabling better internal collaboration and knowledge sharing between sales, customer service and other departments within the company.

Customers have a dedicated channel for interacting with the company, through Vmoso mobile and web apps, custom branded company apps, or email. Any employee servicing the customer can see the full history of discussions with the customer, integrating with the data already held within the CRM system.

When an internal discussion is required to address the customer’s need, that also takes place on Vmoso, with the full context available to everyone involved, not just users of the CRM system.

Vmoso’s  combination of internal and external collaboration elevates the customer experience, leading to increased customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy.