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The Smart Way to Handle Your Agent Shortage Problem this Holiday Season

CIO Business Intelligence

This could be through knowledge-based authentication (ex: “What’s the city you were born in?”) What if you used AI and automation to offer an even more effective form of customer authentication like a 3D photo scan? Your agents will be freed from time-consuming, queue-clogging tasks nearly overnight.

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How enterprises get ahead using hybrid cloud for innovation overlay

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider customer authentication where databases can be located virtually anywhere: it takes about 30 seconds for an agent to verify a customer’s identity using traditional methods like knowledge-based authentication (ex: “What’s your mother’s maiden name?”). For a mid-size contact center, this becomes hundreds of hours each week.

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3 examples of organizations improving CX with self-composed AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditional identity verification methods like knowledge-based authentication (e.g. The bot then provides a link to enter the university’s self-composed Metaverse (an immersive, virtual 3D space) to explore studying in London. what’s your mother’s maiden name?”)

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Prediction: Video-conferencing will help drive increased business travel

Trends in the Living Networks

In the first edition of Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships , which came out in 2000, I wrote in the chapter on managing communication portfolios that the ever-improving quality of video-conferencing would be accompanied by increasing business travel.

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Highlights from 2010: Keynote speech videos, slides, and reviews

Trends in the Living Networks

Keynote at Cisco Insight 2010: Innovation beyond boundaries and the role of knowledge-based relationships. Today more than ever, those who are better at developing rich knowledge-based relationships have an enormous advantage over their competitors, not least in being able to innovate more effectively.".

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Six Trends that are transforming Living Online: Presentation at Influence conference - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

3D TV without glasses is a reality and not far from commercialization. While 3D efforts using colored or polarizing glasses will continue for some time, the real future is in providing different images to each eye, as in Philips’ 3D TV initiatives. It will also be possible to generate realistic 3D images from 2D video.

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Innovation Timeline 1900 – 2050: what we might invent in the next few decades - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Have a look and play with the ideas.

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