Laying the Path Toward Delivering
Effortless Customer Experiences
Christoph Neut - VP EMEA
@christophneut - @sparkcentral - #customerexperience
Agenda of the day:
- The PROBLEM
- The CONTEXT
- The PATH
Laying the Path Toward Delivering
Effortless Customer Experiences
The problem … we solve
Intelligent sources* predict that “messaging” will overtake
phone and email as the main channels for customer
service/engagement by 2020.
As a results brands are/will be flooded by customers who
instead of calling or emailing will send messages** with
service requests and expect a timely and qualitative
response.
In order to manage this anticipated tsunami pro-actively
and efficiently we provide an enterprise grade contact
center solution*** to deal with messaging at scale.
What the ACD**** is for call center teams, Sparkcentral is
for messaging teams and more ...
* McKinsey, Forrester, Gartner, …
our CEO
** Messages can be plain text,
structured text, picture, video,
voice, IOT, social media, ...
*** We are build to handle
scalable messaging volumes and
operate in real-time for
enterprise grade clients
**** Automatic Call Distributor for
messaging
The problem … we solve
Intelligent sources* predict that “messaging” will overtake
phone and email as the main channels for customer
service/engagement by 2020.
As a results brands are/will be flooded by customers who
instead of calling or emailing will send messages** with
service requests and expect a timely and qualitative
response.
In order to manage this anticipated tsunami pro-actively
and efficiently we provide an enterprise grade contact
center solution*** to deal with messaging at scale.
What the ACD**** is for call center teams, Sparkcentral is
for messaging teams and more ...
* McKinsey, Forrester, Gartner, …
our CEO
** Messages can be plain text,
structured text, picture, video,
voice, IOT, social media, ...
*** We are build to handle
scalable messaging volumes and
operate in real-time for
enterprise grade clients
**** Automatic Call Distributor for
messaging
Our mission is to help brands exceed the expectations of today’s mobile,
hyper-connected and increasingly impatient customer.
Customer-centric brands partner with Sparkcentral to
Power amazing customer experiences at scale
Our mission is to help brands exceed the expectations of today’s mobile,
hyper-connected and increasingly impatient customer.
Customer-centric brands partner with Sparkcentral to
Power amazing customer experiences at scale
The way people
communicate with one
another
There is a big gap
How brands expect
customers to
communicate with them
Welcome to the customer
experience gap
of companies believe they deliver
superior customer experience!
80%
Source: Bain & Company: Closing the Delivery Gap
Welcome to the customer
experience gap
of companies believe they deliver
superior customer experience!
80%
of customers agree...
8%
Source: Bain & Company: Closing the delivery gap
○ Contact centers measure customer
experience by resolution-rate;
across the channels they support
○ Customers measure by how much effort it
took to get their issues resolved; regardless
of channel
Welcome to the customer
experience gap
Customer disloyalty is directly
tied to high effort service
interactions that customers have
to make
o Switch from one channel to
another to get help
o Repeat information about an
issue
o Contact a company repeatedly
to get a timely response
o Work with someone that cannot
resolve the issue
more likely to be disloyal after
a high effort interaction
4X
more likely to speak negatively
about their customer service
experience
65%
more likely to tell 10 or
more others
48%
Sources: HBR, Forrester, Corporate Executive Board
Convenience is the
new loyalty
Are you ready to engage in the way customers expect?
Most companies aren’t … YOU?
Tomorrow’s customer
How are they communicating?
MessagingSocial
They live on their phone mobile device
and interact mainly via messaging
80billion
Messages sent/day
Are you ready … ???
>90%
customer interactions
How will you
deliver a truly
effortless
experience for
your digital
customers?
THE CHALLENGE
The path toward effortless service
Know your customer
2 Lay the foundation of identity management and connect with
your systems of record to build a 360° view of your customer
Shift toward messaging
4 Prioritize mobile messaging by facilitating transactional and
operational conversations
Deliver effortless service
5 Deliver preventative/proactive care through customer
intelligence and automations that anticipate customer needs
Be where your customers are today
1 Start on Facebook, Twitter, Messenger and operationalize to
support more channels
Scale to address growing volumes of digital messages
3 Plan to assist agents to respond faster and with the right
information with machine learning and chatbots.
1
Be where your customers are
today
Start on Facebook, Twitter, Messenger and operationalize to
support more channels
* Research by Bain & Company
Popularity of contact channels by age
group*
Most companies have already started responding to
customers on Twitter and Facebook
Source: Twitter Customer Service Data, 2015
The evolution of interactions between
brands and customers on social
Listening
Broadcasting
Selective
Engagement
Customer
Service
+
1:1 Engagement
Proactive
Engagement
& Service
• 2013 | 400,000 followers | Minimal engagement
• Grown to over 10 Million | Most engaged FSI brand
• Actively serving 65+ countries | 400 Marketers globally
• Social is integrated company-wide
Awareness Optimized IntegratedAd Hoc
Participating
Drive Value to
the BusinessStrategic
400k
2013
4.1M
2014
8M
2015
Scaled/Optimized
- Strategy
- Diaspora social
- Technology
- Processes
- Region/BU
collaboration
Integration
- Maintain engagement
- Customer Insights
- Drive registrations and wu.com
traffic
- Social CRM
- Social DR
- Social Advertising
10M+
2016
- Ad-Hoc
tactics
- Negative
sentiment
Established
- Strategy
- Team
- Tools
- Processes
- Education
THREE YEARS OF SOCIAL GROWTH
Using social as a launch
pad for digital care
- 8-12% engagement rate (5-8x
their industry/competitors)
- 24 x 7 Social Care / Community
Management in 5 languages
- 50K comments/messages received
per month by Social Care/Comm.
Mgmt.
- Social has driven 10,000+
registrations on wu.com in 2015
alone!
2
Know your customer
Lay the foundation of identity verification and management and
connect with your systems of record to build a 360° view of your
customer
ID: @twitterguy ID: @facebookguy ID: @messengerguy
Knowing your customer starts by connecting
their various identities across channels
Name: John Doe
Email: john.doe@gmail.com
Phone: 1-234-567-8901
Secure Authentication
Fully resolve customer issues on
social1
Decrease time spent handling
conversations2
Securely collect key verification
information without unnecessary
back and forth
3
True real-time 360 view in CRM
Profile unification
01
Be able to manage a customer-centric
conversation, across channels, without
interruptions for agents or customers
Hyper-segmentation
02
You need to be able to track customers’
activity in such detail that we can create
segments of one
my@email.com
+1 (234) 567-8901
MSISDN #1234
...
@twitterID
fb:username
“Credit card denied” - Mexico City
“Purchase flight #123” - $595
“Slow download speed” - 38 kb/s
“Walked in JFK airport” - Beacon
...
3
Scale to address growing
volumes of digital messages
Plan to assist agents to respond faster and with the right information with machine
learning and chatbots.
You already have the foundation in
place with your digital knowledge
bases and FAQ repositories
TeamsSmart Routing &
Prioritization
• Determine priority based on
specific conversation topics and
time in queue
• Implement skill based routing to
dedicated agents and prioritize
based on context
Suggested
responses
• Powered by artificial intelligence
• Increase agent efficiency
• Lower training costs
• Lower the cost per interaction
Bots won’t
completely replace
digital
conversations
○ Take over recurring parts of a conversation
○ Auto-responder for common questions
○ Assist agents to deliver faster responses that are
highly personalized
○ Seamless transitions
○ Keep the human touch in CX … humor,
empathy, ...
43
4
Shift toward messaging
Prioritize mobile messaging by facilitating transactional and
operational conversations
>1 billion
active users
>1 billion
active users
“The future is already here - it’s just not very
evenly distributed.”
850 million
active
users
9 out of 10 users would like to talk to businesses using messaging
Seamlessly engage in conversations with your
customers on any messaging app
Coming in 2017Available today
Messaging will become the new
standard for service because it’s:
Threaded
2 Conversations can continue where they left off meaning
customers don’t have to repeat themselves
Convenient
4 Every phone has a message app that can handle SMS
and important messages can be pushed to home
screens on smartphones
Expressive
5 gifs, emoji, images, video can all be appended to
messages making it an entirely more expressive
medium than phone, email, or chat
Asynchronous
1 Both parties don’t need to be available at the same time unlike
phone or chat
Contextual
3 Automated messages such as boarding passes, delay
notifications, etc can be included in conversations
Request a ride directly from
Messenger
Communicate with the service team
around issues/questions
Share information with friends about
location and ETA
700% increase in inbound messages in
1 month
IN-APP and IN-WEB
MESSAGING
Embed conversational
service into your mobile
app or web application
● Give customers instant access to
help
● Answer questions faster with
context
● Asyncronous messaging allows
clients to switch from PC to Mobile
& back
IN-APP and IN-WEB
MESSAGING
5
Deliver effortless service
Deliver preventative/proactive care through customer intelligence
and automations that anticipate customer needs
The best customer
experience is a
proactive one
360° profile unification
Internet of thingsUnified messaging
Automations
Bots
Activity tracking
Hyper-segmentation
Artificial intelligence
In-app messaging
OpenCRM integrations
Pro-active engagement automation
Automatically trigger actions in relation to
customer events
Update profiles
Prioritize customers
Match agents in real-time
Build a concierge-like customer experience
Turn potential issues into great experiences, at scale
“It looks like you’re going to miss your flight since you’re
still a 45 min drive away from the airport...”
“We can rebook you to the
one that leaves at 5.45pm
instead”
“Ok, thank you so much!”
“No problem ;-)”
The path toward effortless service
Know your customer
2 Lay the foundation of identity management and connect with
your systems of record to build a 360° view of your customer
Shift toward messaging
4 Prioritize mobile messaging by facilitating transactional and
operational conversations
Deliver effortless service
5 Deliver preventative/proactive care through customer
intelligence and automations that anticipate customer needs
Be where your customers are today
1 Start on Facebook, Twitter, Messenger and operationalize to
support more channels
Scale to address growing volumes of digital messages
3 Plan to assist agents to respond faster and with the right
information with machine learning and chatbots.
Thank you!
christoph@sparkcentral.com

Presentation: Sparkcentral

  • 1.
    Laying the PathToward Delivering Effortless Customer Experiences Christoph Neut - VP EMEA @christophneut - @sparkcentral - #customerexperience
  • 2.
    Agenda of theday: - The PROBLEM - The CONTEXT - The PATH Laying the Path Toward Delivering Effortless Customer Experiences
  • 3.
    The problem …we solve Intelligent sources* predict that “messaging” will overtake phone and email as the main channels for customer service/engagement by 2020. As a results brands are/will be flooded by customers who instead of calling or emailing will send messages** with service requests and expect a timely and qualitative response. In order to manage this anticipated tsunami pro-actively and efficiently we provide an enterprise grade contact center solution*** to deal with messaging at scale. What the ACD**** is for call center teams, Sparkcentral is for messaging teams and more ... * McKinsey, Forrester, Gartner, … our CEO ** Messages can be plain text, structured text, picture, video, voice, IOT, social media, ... *** We are build to handle scalable messaging volumes and operate in real-time for enterprise grade clients **** Automatic Call Distributor for messaging
  • 5.
    The problem …we solve Intelligent sources* predict that “messaging” will overtake phone and email as the main channels for customer service/engagement by 2020. As a results brands are/will be flooded by customers who instead of calling or emailing will send messages** with service requests and expect a timely and qualitative response. In order to manage this anticipated tsunami pro-actively and efficiently we provide an enterprise grade contact center solution*** to deal with messaging at scale. What the ACD**** is for call center teams, Sparkcentral is for messaging teams and more ... * McKinsey, Forrester, Gartner, … our CEO ** Messages can be plain text, structured text, picture, video, voice, IOT, social media, ... *** We are build to handle scalable messaging volumes and operate in real-time for enterprise grade clients **** Automatic Call Distributor for messaging
  • 7.
    Our mission isto help brands exceed the expectations of today’s mobile, hyper-connected and increasingly impatient customer. Customer-centric brands partner with Sparkcentral to Power amazing customer experiences at scale
  • 9.
    Our mission isto help brands exceed the expectations of today’s mobile, hyper-connected and increasingly impatient customer. Customer-centric brands partner with Sparkcentral to Power amazing customer experiences at scale
  • 11.
    The way people communicatewith one another There is a big gap How brands expect customers to communicate with them
  • 12.
    Welcome to thecustomer experience gap of companies believe they deliver superior customer experience! 80% Source: Bain & Company: Closing the Delivery Gap
  • 13.
    Welcome to thecustomer experience gap of companies believe they deliver superior customer experience! 80% of customers agree... 8% Source: Bain & Company: Closing the delivery gap
  • 14.
    ○ Contact centersmeasure customer experience by resolution-rate; across the channels they support ○ Customers measure by how much effort it took to get their issues resolved; regardless of channel Welcome to the customer experience gap
  • 15.
    Customer disloyalty isdirectly tied to high effort service interactions that customers have to make o Switch from one channel to another to get help o Repeat information about an issue o Contact a company repeatedly to get a timely response o Work with someone that cannot resolve the issue more likely to be disloyal after a high effort interaction 4X more likely to speak negatively about their customer service experience 65% more likely to tell 10 or more others 48% Sources: HBR, Forrester, Corporate Executive Board
  • 16.
    Convenience is the newloyalty Are you ready to engage in the way customers expect? Most companies aren’t … YOU?
  • 17.
    Tomorrow’s customer How arethey communicating?
  • 19.
    MessagingSocial They live ontheir phone mobile device and interact mainly via messaging 80billion Messages sent/day
  • 21.
    Are you ready… ??? >90% customer interactions
  • 22.
    How will you delivera truly effortless experience for your digital customers? THE CHALLENGE
  • 23.
    The path towardeffortless service Know your customer 2 Lay the foundation of identity management and connect with your systems of record to build a 360° view of your customer Shift toward messaging 4 Prioritize mobile messaging by facilitating transactional and operational conversations Deliver effortless service 5 Deliver preventative/proactive care through customer intelligence and automations that anticipate customer needs Be where your customers are today 1 Start on Facebook, Twitter, Messenger and operationalize to support more channels Scale to address growing volumes of digital messages 3 Plan to assist agents to respond faster and with the right information with machine learning and chatbots.
  • 24.
    1 Be where yourcustomers are today Start on Facebook, Twitter, Messenger and operationalize to support more channels
  • 25.
    * Research byBain & Company Popularity of contact channels by age group*
  • 26.
    Most companies havealready started responding to customers on Twitter and Facebook Source: Twitter Customer Service Data, 2015
  • 27.
    The evolution ofinteractions between brands and customers on social Listening Broadcasting Selective Engagement Customer Service + 1:1 Engagement Proactive Engagement & Service
  • 28.
    • 2013 |400,000 followers | Minimal engagement • Grown to over 10 Million | Most engaged FSI brand • Actively serving 65+ countries | 400 Marketers globally • Social is integrated company-wide Awareness Optimized IntegratedAd Hoc Participating Drive Value to the BusinessStrategic 400k 2013 4.1M 2014 8M 2015 Scaled/Optimized - Strategy - Diaspora social - Technology - Processes - Region/BU collaboration Integration - Maintain engagement - Customer Insights - Drive registrations and wu.com traffic - Social CRM - Social DR - Social Advertising 10M+ 2016 - Ad-Hoc tactics - Negative sentiment Established - Strategy - Team - Tools - Processes - Education THREE YEARS OF SOCIAL GROWTH
  • 29.
    Using social asa launch pad for digital care - 8-12% engagement rate (5-8x their industry/competitors) - 24 x 7 Social Care / Community Management in 5 languages - 50K comments/messages received per month by Social Care/Comm. Mgmt. - Social has driven 10,000+ registrations on wu.com in 2015 alone!
  • 30.
    2 Know your customer Laythe foundation of identity verification and management and connect with your systems of record to build a 360° view of your customer
  • 31.
    ID: @twitterguy ID:@facebookguy ID: @messengerguy Knowing your customer starts by connecting their various identities across channels Name: John Doe Email: john.doe@gmail.com Phone: 1-234-567-8901
  • 32.
    Secure Authentication Fully resolvecustomer issues on social1 Decrease time spent handling conversations2 Securely collect key verification information without unnecessary back and forth 3
  • 34.
    True real-time 360view in CRM Profile unification 01 Be able to manage a customer-centric conversation, across channels, without interruptions for agents or customers Hyper-segmentation 02 You need to be able to track customers’ activity in such detail that we can create segments of one my@email.com +1 (234) 567-8901 MSISDN #1234 ... @twitterID fb:username “Credit card denied” - Mexico City “Purchase flight #123” - $595 “Slow download speed” - 38 kb/s “Walked in JFK airport” - Beacon ...
  • 35.
    3 Scale to addressgrowing volumes of digital messages Plan to assist agents to respond faster and with the right information with machine learning and chatbots.
  • 36.
    You already havethe foundation in place with your digital knowledge bases and FAQ repositories
  • 40.
    TeamsSmart Routing & Prioritization •Determine priority based on specific conversation topics and time in queue • Implement skill based routing to dedicated agents and prioritize based on context
  • 41.
    Suggested responses • Powered byartificial intelligence • Increase agent efficiency • Lower training costs • Lower the cost per interaction
  • 42.
    Bots won’t completely replace digital conversations ○Take over recurring parts of a conversation ○ Auto-responder for common questions ○ Assist agents to deliver faster responses that are highly personalized ○ Seamless transitions ○ Keep the human touch in CX … humor, empathy, ...
  • 43.
  • 44.
    4 Shift toward messaging Prioritizemobile messaging by facilitating transactional and operational conversations
  • 45.
    >1 billion active users >1billion active users “The future is already here - it’s just not very evenly distributed.” 850 million active users 9 out of 10 users would like to talk to businesses using messaging
  • 47.
    Seamlessly engage inconversations with your customers on any messaging app Coming in 2017Available today
  • 48.
    Messaging will becomethe new standard for service because it’s: Threaded 2 Conversations can continue where they left off meaning customers don’t have to repeat themselves Convenient 4 Every phone has a message app that can handle SMS and important messages can be pushed to home screens on smartphones Expressive 5 gifs, emoji, images, video can all be appended to messages making it an entirely more expressive medium than phone, email, or chat Asynchronous 1 Both parties don’t need to be available at the same time unlike phone or chat Contextual 3 Automated messages such as boarding passes, delay notifications, etc can be included in conversations
  • 49.
    Request a ridedirectly from Messenger Communicate with the service team around issues/questions Share information with friends about location and ETA 700% increase in inbound messages in 1 month
  • 50.
  • 51.
    Embed conversational service intoyour mobile app or web application ● Give customers instant access to help ● Answer questions faster with context ● Asyncronous messaging allows clients to switch from PC to Mobile & back IN-APP and IN-WEB MESSAGING
  • 52.
    5 Deliver effortless service Deliverpreventative/proactive care through customer intelligence and automations that anticipate customer needs
  • 53.
    The best customer experienceis a proactive one
  • 54.
    360° profile unification Internetof thingsUnified messaging Automations Bots Activity tracking Hyper-segmentation Artificial intelligence In-app messaging OpenCRM integrations
  • 57.
    Pro-active engagement automation Automaticallytrigger actions in relation to customer events Update profiles Prioritize customers Match agents in real-time Build a concierge-like customer experience Turn potential issues into great experiences, at scale “It looks like you’re going to miss your flight since you’re still a 45 min drive away from the airport...” “We can rebook you to the one that leaves at 5.45pm instead” “Ok, thank you so much!” “No problem ;-)”
  • 58.
    The path towardeffortless service Know your customer 2 Lay the foundation of identity management and connect with your systems of record to build a 360° view of your customer Shift toward messaging 4 Prioritize mobile messaging by facilitating transactional and operational conversations Deliver effortless service 5 Deliver preventative/proactive care through customer intelligence and automations that anticipate customer needs Be where your customers are today 1 Start on Facebook, Twitter, Messenger and operationalize to support more channels Scale to address growing volumes of digital messages 3 Plan to assist agents to respond faster and with the right information with machine learning and chatbots.
  • 60.