As we all know, AI will revolutionise customer experience (CX) – yet research shows under 5% of CX-focused AI initiatives actually reach any sort of significant scale.
But why the gap between the hype and reality?
Our ebook – entitled ‘Revolutionising the Customer Experience‘ – identifies key barriers organisations face when implementing AI across the customer journey.
The report details how the initial ease of testing AI solutions leads teams to underestimate subsequent scaling challenges. Once beyond basic prototypes, cross-business coordination becomes vital but difficult while siloed systems and disconnected, poor data also hamper efforts to feed increasingly large AI models.
Four cultural and operational “pain points” stand out as organisations attempt to progress pilots into full deployments:
To overcome these adoption barriers, our AI experts advocate a structured approach across four dimensions:
With careful change management grounded in realistic deployment roadmaps, AI can drive immense customer experience improvements – but equally, getting it wrong can be costly leading to a waste or even total loss of investment.
Only by acknowledging AI’s potential and its limitations in equal measure can organisations negotiate the gap from ambitious, theoretical promise to real, daily and widespread impact.
To read more about successfully scaling AI in CX, download our new ebook today.
About the Author
Kevin McGachy is Head of AI Solutions at Sabio Group.
Sabio Groupis a global digital customer experience (CX) transformation specialist with major operations in the UK (England and Scotland), Spain, France, Netherlands, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and India.
The Group, which includes ‘makepositive’, delivers solutions and services that seamlessly combine digital and human interactions to support exceptional customer experiences.
Through its own technology, and that of world-class technology leaders such as Avaya, Genesys, Verint, Twilio, Google, Amazon and Salesforce, Sabio helps organisations optimise their customer journeys by making better decisions across their multiple contact channels.
The Group works with major brands worldwide, including Aegon, AXA Assistance, Bankia, BBVA, BGL, Caixabank, DHL, loveholidays, Marks & Spencer, Rentokil, Essent, GovTech, HomeServe, Sainsbury’s Argos, Telefónica, Think Money and Transcom Worldwide.
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