Ai and Automation - Rewrite The Rules of Customer Engagement - Ebook

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Rewrite the rules of

customer engagement
AI and Automation can transform
the customer experience in any
way you can imagine
Innovate to delight customers
AI presents the biggest Where Orange Business
opportunity for companies Services adds value
to evolve their CX, align We deliver a transformative journey:
the convergence of IT from consulting to implementation,
and OT – even to survive integration and orchestration.
as a business. We will work with you to identify the
low-hanging fruit where AI can
make immediate and measurable
impact, and from there replicate
and evolve the implementation to
other areas of your business.
Automated processes will involve
multiple functions, so it’s important
to make this a multi-function
conversation. So everyone wins.

Orange Business Services delivers


a transformative journey: from consulting to
implementation, integration and orchestration.
Happier Customers now demand
instantaneous service
This is driving new priorities in
contact centers. Skilled agents
Customer story:
Global telecoms company
employees, and digital experiences.
are harder and more expensive
to recruit, retain and retrain. That’s A global telecoms operator was
Younger generations
happier even prefer to engage
the reason why they should be able
to perform what they do best, and
experiencing large call volumes
to answer basic questions –

customers with bots. let automation handle the rest. This and a huge churn in call agents
results in higher job satisfaction, because the work was monotonous.
reduced churn, and loyal The company wanted to offer 24/7
employees who are empowered to quality service and fast resolution
work smarter, not harder. for simple queries related to invoice
payment, credit balance or remote
Combined with AI, happy fixed-line diagnostics.
employees can improve customer
experience with lower waiting times, Orange Business Services
first contact resolution, and an investigated the questions callers
immersive, engaging experience were asking, and deployed a callbot
that translates into customer with automatic speech recognition
advocacy. that handled 20% of all calls, cut
transfers by 30% due to precise
The objective of implementing qualification and routing, and
AI is not to replace humans, but reduced call times by 40 seconds.
to ensure they are at the heart
of your digital transformation.
Because human capital is an
asset, not a cost.
New ways of thinking about customer experience
AI and Automation can also increase sales In the best contact centers, bots enable fast
and revenue. Many companies still view service when it’s needed and on the other
end of the spectrum enable agents to
contact centers as basic customer support give detailed answers to their customers,
hubs, not as profit centers. Equipping teams By 2025, AI will power
de-escalate emotional engagement and offer
with advanced features will help them drive extra care when the situation demands it. 95% of all customer
sales directly through customer interactions. The combination of bots working and interactions with
human thinking enhances the agent’s natural a brand, including
talents – empathy, efficiency, helpfulness. live telephone and
online conversations.
Potential use cases:

Sales Fraud Claims Customer Compliance


prevention processing onboarding

Recommend up-sell Securely authenticate Automate claims’ Speed up due Remove data
suggestions to agents callers while flagging first-tier questions, diligence with bots security breaches
in real-time suspicious behaviors aggregate data and performing data
and transactions assist agents in verification, credit Improve oversight and
Proactively connect on the fly resolving claims assessment and control over contact
with online window sending confirmation center operations
shoppers
How can Orange Business Services
take your contact center to the next level?
Consultancy first
These technologies are not just off-the-shelf We take away all of the hard decisions about
standard solutions. At least, that’s not how technology partners too, because we work
we see them. only with the best fit for your solution. Whether
that’s major players like Google, IBM, Amazon,
Where are your pain points? How can you do Microsoft, NICE, or Genesys, or niche players
something better? We prefer to get to who are experts in their specific domains or local
the heart of your business challenges – and languages.
we begin with hands-on or virtual workshops,
design thinking and brainstorming. Then delivery
By establishing the drivers, we can build the We will mobilize many skillsets: business
perfect solution. Which may include a mix of consultants to help you define the strategy
technology, process and people change. and the roadmap, data scientists to define how
a bot has to respond and how to make it more
There is no revolution or expansive overhauls intelligent, ergonomists and linguists to define
needed. We start small. We help you to map the syntax and optimize understanding natural
employee activities and processes, identifying language, developers. It is complex.
where automation is the key to immediate
ROI and long-term optimization, with the Every project will have specific
ability to scale up when required. KPIs and concrete measures
to monitor success.
An end-to-end customer journey Implementation across
business functions
Separate systems cannot exploit data
end-to-end. Integrated systems can. With every implementation, we work with
Orange Business Services has years of different business functions, ranging from IT and
experience in delivering world-class, global HR to marketing and sales, to deliver the widest
scale contact centers. And now with AI and range of benefits. And employees must be
Automation technologies infused through involved in every step of the journey to make it a
the development and delivery process, they success.
have next-generation intelligence built-in. A large part of success will be down to a
successful user adoption programme, built and
implemented using a communication and training Expand AI to
strategy. other processes,
interactions or
departments
Track the
right KPIs
Test, train and
test again to keep
on improving
bots efficiency
Think user
friendly
Design,
implement
and integrate
Start small
to demonstrate
ROI
Agree on
a roadmap
Define the
objectives and
use cases
Customer Story:
Global telecoms company
Hand off the boring work to a bot A Customer Service & Operations
team wanted to execute service
ordering processes with speed
Manual processes are This is where Robotic Process
Automation (RPA) comes in. and accuracy by automating
a recipe for inefficiency manual, repetitive and time-
It’s ideal for tasks that require no
and human error. They’re human intervention. It’s also perfect for consuming steps in key operations,
also boring for contact situations where human agents could addressing the complexity of
center agents to deal with. be restricted or overwhelmed. a multi-layered information system.
Why waste a good human Orange Business Services
mind on work that requires deployed RPA powered by
no analysis, emotion, NICE technology on 16 desktops.
empathy or judgment? It delivered immediate results,
cutting down the time to complete
a customer order by 82%.

The bots have reduced manual


On average, up to 20% of workload and saved 21 agent
manual, low-value days per year, and have boosted
processes could be handled efficiency and profitability with 400
end-to-end by a bot. requests handled by bots. A further
six bots are now being developed
and eight are under analysis.
Customer Story:
Chinese multinational
AI-powered workforce management technology company
The world’s largest
Resource management in These solutions enable you to see telecommunications equipment
what your best agents are doing right. manufacturer was booming, with
a contact center requires
You can then provide individualized a 50% YoY increase in only three
optimal staffing level to coaching and training on those skills years. But it did not have a unified
balance variable call volumes. to deliver next-level customer service. global contact center and customers
An understaffed contact experienced poor-quality
center puts stress on teams interactions.
and lowers customer Orange Business Services designed
satisfaction levels. And a global IP contact center that
overstaffing leads to idle provided centralized quality
agents and higher costs. monitoring and new capabilities in
workforce management as well as
unified data analysis and reporting.
Advanced workforce management With 2,900 agents located in 21
software uses AI and machine countries, the contact center was
learning algorithms optimize designed for high availability 24/7
plans and improve accuracy with upgrade opportunities built in.
and efficiency by automating The end result? Consistent KPIs,
operational practices. enhanced performance and the
same level of service, regardless
of the country.
Customer Story:
Tobacco brand

Callbots help get This world-leading tobacco company


is transforming to create a smoke-free
it right first time future. And a key part of that future
relies on its ecommerce strategy. Its call
center agents were spending a significant
amount of time accurately qualifying calls
73% of contact center traffic is made and checking compliance with legal age
up of voice-based interaction. But limits for their electronic device sales.
traditional IVR is often a source of
Orange Business Services implemented
frustration for customers. a Callbot on top of Unified Engagement
Suite powered by Genesys, supporting
Most people who call a contact center want 130 seats across Europe with, NLU
a quick and empathic answer to their problems, and Text To Speech, powered by
and long menus, incorrect routing and call Google Dialogflow and handling German,
dropouts can lead to significant discontent. Italian, English and French languages.
The implementation also enables instant
Callbots give customers the freedom to express access to inbound, outbound, email,
themselves in their own words. Voice-driven AI video callsand digital channels like
assistants with Natural Language understanding Viber, Facebook, and web chat.
understand the reason for the customer’s
This makes age confirmation much faster,
call and help a human agent provide
reducing handling time, and has helped
expert support and deliver the result increase sales by ten times.
the customer is looking for.
On a typical call, agents could spend up
to one minute qualifying the customer. 80% faster
Instead, callbots can handle this before customer
passing the call and context to the agent.
authentication
A typical callbot user journey

Authentication Query resolution

Transcription, Escalation
Biometric Conversation Next Best Case
Live translation and Predictive
authentication with CallBot Action management
and form filing Routing

Wrap-up

Tailored coaching CRM and back-end Root-cause analytics


Proactive actions systems update Performance analytics
Chatbots make every interaction smarter Customer Story:
Government
A European national government
Chatbots are the key to They enable customers to back-end system so that,
self-serve. Now, with smart for example, a customer on department needed to respond
the virtual workforce you to a major change in national
automation, chatbots can make a website who is asking the
need in your contact context-based decisions and chatbot questions can see tax policies, which was expected
center solution. suggest ways for an agent recommended product options, to drive an increased volume of
or customer to proceed. and purchase a product with the calls from citizens.
10 Our technology also enables IT and CRM systems operating
Orange Business Services
0 01
communication 1 and integration seamlessly behind the scenes.
01 1
investigated the possibility of
0 between a chatbot
1
and your
0 0
reducing the number of interactions
1 0 0
1 handled by the departments’
1 01 10
agents serving local authorities
0
01
1 by handing off simple queries
01
to bots. We implemented bots
1 80% of all applications
to handle 200 interactions a day,
10
% will be managed with no escalation to an agent,
01
via chatbots in 2021 and a peak of 9,000 a month
during the busiest periods.
Gartner These bots enabled a reallocation
and optimization of resources,
redeploying 230 agents to better
serve citizens.
Predictive A major opportunity for
automation is in predicting
Automated routing Customer Story:
Large insurance company
insights the customer’s next move.
And this relies on collecting
When a customer calls, they
expect timely, efficient support. A large insurance company wanted to
and analyzing huge amounts Automated routing guides unify its sales centers in the cloud after
of data. It’s not something customers to the right resource a significant merger, to better manage
based on their real-time needs. telemarketing campaigns and optimize
that’s achievable overnight
customer segmentation.
– but our experts can make
it a reality. Predictive web engagement
Orange Business Services deployed
Unified Engagement Suite with Genesys
Predictive engagement tools
Altocloud, which delivers predictive
learn about customer intent analytics based on real-time visualization
and deliver personalized, of customer web behavior, for 332
preferred site experiences agents across 3 sites in France.
via the right channel with a bot
or human, based on real-time The solution has increased
and historical data to understand conversions by proactively engaging
customer intent. visitors, turning them from window
shoppers into customers, and driven
more revenue through better targeted
outbound sales calls. It has also
modernized the company’s previously
separate contact centers for more
flexibility, agility and reduced costs,
and improved innovative capabilities
to better compete in the market.
Empower the voice of the customer Customer Story:
Food & beverage
industry giant
A typical business Organizations need to listen to It includes 100% interaction at your
customer feedback across all contact center and can be crossed The company wanted to get a 360º
hears from only 4% touchpoints to get a good sense with indirect feedbacks. view and actionable insights from
of its dissatisfied of their overall experience. interactions with customers coming
customers. 91% just The question is, how will you into their contact center and
never come back. Broad-scale interaction analytics now act on what you learn? outsourcers. The business also
generates automated business insight needed to deliver targeted agent
by analyzing customer feedback Contact reason detection can training to boost up-sell strategies,
scores and verbatim comments. reduce transfer rates by up to comply with policies and enrich
30% so more customers are interaction with their B2B and
routed to the right agent first time. B2C customers.
Digitally “listen” to every customer interaction Using NICE technologies, Orange
Business Services helped launch
a PoC in France and the US, involving
Find the most Find out why Understand why Identify trends Detect the 700+ agents and 20,000 calls
successful a new product customers are and new points probability of analysed over a 2-month period.
approach in sales does or contacting you of interest among customer churn
conversations doesn’t work customers The PoC delivered ROI within 18
months, and business stakeholders
became project sponsors for a global
rollout. The business has ensured
Create training Feed this into Create better Feed this into Take pre-
that future profits cover all expenses
to upskill all new product user journey new product emptive action
for the global implementation of the
agents development flows that answer development to
solution, which will handle between
processes common processes retain them
6 and 8 million calls and 20 million
questions more
interactions per year.
quickly
Why Orange?

Orange Business Services has


a world-class voice network: this
really matters when the majority
of contact center calls involve
We have a multitude of in-house
voice interaction.
expertise:
We also have deep experience in
IVR and contact center integration Project Manager Bot Trainer UX Designer
and implementation. Our experts
in natural language understanding,
biometrics, AI and analytics Developer Editor Contact Center Expert
can devise and build the exact
bespoke solution for your specific Business Consultant NLU Developer UX Expert
business issues.

Bot Designer Security Expert Customer Service Manager


We work with many Robotic
Process

technology partners Automation

including:

AI-powered
Employee Conversational
Engagement Agents

Predictive
Engagement
See more ways AI &
Automation can transform
your contact centers
The potential for AI & Automation is almost
limitless. We can help you explore how
to take your contact center into the future.

www.orange-business.com/en/
solutions/customer-experience

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