Esteban Kolsky

The Evolving Role of Customer Service: Your Questions

While my blog was being “reworked” (read: unhacked), I posted in Linked-In about the webinar I did last week with Microsoft.

That was the first of a three-webinar series on the challenges affecting customer service these days and for the next couple of years.  The first webinar was on the evolving role of customer service and how it is going to look in the next decade.

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Customer 360, Dreamforce 2018, The Langoliers, and a Wish

OK, weird title – but stay with me, promise it gets better and it is a great point on data use.
 
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Marketplaces, Platforms, Ecosystems, and You

If you ever read my blog you know that Sameer Patel (CEO of Kahuna) is a good friend and someone who challenges me from time to time on how to explain things.
 
No, I won’t be doing any more one-page summary of complicated topics, sorry.
 
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Three Pitfalls to Avoid with Artificial Intelligence in Customer Service

A few weeks ago, I did a webinar on using AI in customer service with my friends at ServiceNow.   It was very well received, and since then I got some questions about the content.   There was one slide that was the most di
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Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade

As I continue my myriad research projects this spring season I come across incredible insights from those I interview.
 
I have been doing a lot of work in platforms, data usage (including AI), infrastructure, and digital transformation this season (and I don’t see it slowing down, or changing, anytime soon – these are mission-critical, decade-plus initiatives for most organizations and they need to — well, compare notes.
 
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These Are The Last 12 Questions You Had On Customer Experience – Promise!

(lengthy post warning: over 4,000 words)

I wasn’t even close.

After the first of the three video webinars, we did with Microsoft on customer experience I wrote a blog post saying that I had found the four questions you had about customer experience.

Man, was I off.

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Want Real Success? Destroy the Company-Centric Customer Experience

Earlier this year I presented at C3 in Las Vegas. The topic of my presentation was Customer Experience for Executives. It was very well received, if I say so myself – since no one else was in the room… Kidding! I was asked to post a brief summary of the talk here.

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Evangelizing Omni-Channel (Why It Is Not the Answer)

One of the topics that we set out to discover during out surveys past two years (note: take our survey this year, please? was whether organizations and practitioners were already on board with the concept of omni-channel. What we found out was pretty much in line with what we expected: it is too early for them to focus on it.

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Customer Service Research – One More Time!

Yes, it’s that time of the year.

The (now) fourth version of this wonderful research on Customer Service Usage and Adoption report is coming back!

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The Why (And Why Not) of Customer Journey Mapping

If you and I communicated recently (say, last 1-2 years) in any way – talked, emailed, came to a panel or keynote of mine, or are just lucky enough to be my client – you know how much I — er, “love” customer journey mapping (CJM).

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