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With NiCE, it’s never been easier for organizations of all sizes around the globe to create extraordinary customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. Featuring the world’s #1 cloud native customer experience platform, CXone, we’re a worldwide leader in AI-powered contact center software. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, partner with NiCE to transform—and elevate—every customer interaction.

The year of COVID has passed, the dust has settled, and we find ourselves in the “new normal” where more workplaces have become either permanently remote or blended. Remote work has plenty of benefits, but given the physical distance, many new challenges have risen, making performance management more dynamic than ever before.

Change management is part of every successful technology transformation effort. You can nail the technical implementation, but if the people using the new capabilities aren’t on board, your project will struggle out the gate.

This blog is the second in a series on digital channel management. In the first installment, we talked about how the proliferation of digital channels is changing the customer journey – and how businesses are adapting.

Ready for a statement that will make you think? Gartner predicts that 85% of customer interactions will be managed without humans in 2021. This might be a scary notion for agents who are sensitive to job security but rest assured that human agent jobs aren’t going away. Why? The Contact Center is still inherently a forum for human engagement. The 85% of interactions that can be offloaded from human agents will be represented by the pesky repeat issues and questions that customers have that can sap an agent’s productivity. Imagine the additional productivity you can get from your agents if they aren’t chasing down account balances or processing payments? The reality is, bots and virtual agents will be a complement to their human counterparts, not a replacement. Bots and virtual agents will be helping their human teammates versus taking jobs from them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest buzzword in the business world. Organizations are looking to AI to do everything from automating help desk responses to speeding up the development of life-saving drugs. It’s true that artificial intelligence has the potential to transform business processes and outcomes, but AI isn’t the answer to all of life’s problems and the technology needs to evolve a lot before it can identify a cure for cancer.

In the business world, customer experience has long been the focus of many efforts. From marketing to lead generation, business operation, and even customer retention, brands know all too well that the customer is the one part of the equation that can make or break their business at the drop of a hat.