If I gave you all the ingredients that go into a great falafel, would you succeed in putting together the best falafel there is, or even an edible version of it? You and I know that those who haven’t cooked in the past, are very likely to end up with an inedible dish, despite having…
CX- Automation, how recent is this phenomenon?
Contrary to popular perception, CX automation is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, consumer mass deployment of the discipline dates back at least two decades. Record scrutiny and archival research should clear the air on which industry: Telecom or Banking was the first, in the Indian market to go the automation route. Pieces of empirical…
Knowledge Management and Service!
Without a robust knowledge management practice in place, customer/seller/merchant/client, or just about any other kind of quality support is impossible to augment. Customer experience and quality of support get spoken about a lot, but rarely would you come across ‘knowledge management’ getting the same attention, as a topic. Modern-day organisations are immensely complex, inherently multidimensional,…
Happy Independence Day, People!
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5 step change framework for BPOs and product Ideas!
In the last article, I argued how the winds within the wings of traditional phone-based BPOs are being stolen by cheap, easy, and widely available automation alternatives. I also propounded that weakening prospects of the BPO industry do not necessarily mean a reduction in the overall scope of outsourcing as a business decision. There is…
Outsourcing and BPO; the past and the future!
Outsourcing exists because economic inequality has been a persistent reality of our world, and as far as we can tell it is not going anywhere. Both futurists and economists believe that whilst growth infused inequality improves the lives of those on the weaker side of the economy too, in balance, but at the same time,…
Service Design for B2B customers.
We discussed the intricacies of B2C service design in the last essay, thank you indeed for receiving it so well – it was read 11K times in the last week, a number I am appeased with. I have been getting request emails since to address the same topic for the B2B (business to business) universe….
Service design for Indian consumers!
Plain sight is almost always anything but plain. “If you happen to be wearing red glasses then red flags do not appear RED!”, said a wise man, nearly a decade ago. (Trivia, find out who said it) The point of invoking this is to say that ‘knowing’ the way things are, is not a naturally…
**Integrity : Percept Vs Practice**
What is to act with integrity? Why play by the rules? Why let ethics make a hard task even harder? No one seems to care, why should we? Should profitability not come before proprietary? We’re too small for such high ideals, don’t you think? Survival comes first, we will see, what to do with such…
The monk, The ‘dweep’ and the grand diversion!
हे जी रे.. (4) हे.. रामचंद्र कह गए सिया से (2) ऐसा कलयुग आएगा हंस चुगेगा दाना तुन का (2) कौआ मोती खाएगा हंस चुगेगा दाना तुन का कौआ मोती खाएगा हे जी रे.. फिल्म : गोपी (1970) संगीत दिया है: कल्याणजी-आनंदजी गीत के बोल: राजेंद्र कृष्ण गायक: महेंद्र कपूर Apple music link to the…