How you can restart your digital transformation with the power of conversational AI

The age of DIY (Digital It Yourself) is here. Businesses must be ready to help customers help themselves with AI-driven tools and intuitive self-service options they can trust. With recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing with real conversational data, businesses can now develop human-like self-service bots that reduce response times, lower operational costs and increase customer satisfaction.

But delivering extraordinary self-service and CX overall can only happen through full digital transformation. This means implementing a digital-first, customer-driven mindset to improve operational efficiency and streamline processes.

Start (or restart) your full digital transformation – now

The first step is to move to the cloud. This increases your CX agility and reduces costs by eliminating tech inefficiencies, repairs and other issues. It also improves productivity by streamlining multi-site operations. Next, start your CX digital transformation or restart it if it’s stalled.

Surprisingly, several organizations haven’t taken the initiative yet. While adopting digital technology will benefit businesses, some companies have struggled with the changes required to implement it. One speed bump is CX technology wasn’t capable of meeting digital expectations for them or their customers, especially through self-service. With advanced self-service applications, and customers asking for more options, now is the perfect time to take action.

If your digital transformation is stuck, it’s time to review and revitalize. If you never began the transition, don’t delay.

Then, once you are fully digital, it’s time to kick your self-service options up a few levels through conversational AI.

Organizations are set to spend $6.7 trillion through 2024 on digital transformation. (IDC)

Conversational knowledge really is power

When it comes to offering self-service, most organizations simply employ chatbots that resolve a fraction of interactions and call it a day. Bots need to be more than simple tools automatically shuffling limited responses from a set of pre-written answers that aren’t really helping customers. They need to get in touch with the reality of what customers are truly thinking and what they really want.

With the shift in customer preferences toward digital channels, there’s an expectation for exceptional service and top-tier technological assistance at every stage of their journey—and conversational AI is a key tool to deliver just that. Why? Conversational AI learns from conversations to predict the purpose of future interactions and propel them toward successful outcomes.

With a data-driven approach that incorporates insights from millions of live agent-assisted interactions, you can consistently improve self-service answers and resolutions. Armed with superior data and insights, organizations can simplify CX to make journeys more delightful and seamless by making self-service brilliantly human.?

This enables enterprises to offer intelligent virtual assistants that are available around-the-clock and capable of providing a degree of hyper-personalized service unavailable before now.

Unlock the CX innovation of conversational AI

Recognizing and understanding what digital transformation and conversational AI can do for customers and employees is an important step toward achieving a truly successful, purpose driven CX plan.

To get started on your transformation, download the Conversational AI Unveiled white paper from Opus Research and read the full blog by Michele Carlson , Senior Product Marketing Manager for NICE.

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