Q-nomy's Blog: Customer Experience And More

July 13, 2021

The world has changed over the last 18 months – and many of the improved transactional changes are here to stay. Consumers now demand seamless digital experiences, including scheduling appointments online.

March 11, 2021

Managing your customer volumes and requests can be challenging at the best of times. Now you are faced with social distancing and capacity restrictions but still need to meet your communities’ service needs. New platforms and ways to interact with citizens need to be developed and deployed: a digital omni-service approach to delivering government services.

March 2, 2021

Covid-19 has changed the way government provides service to the population, forcing agencies and municipalities to quickly develop processes and technologies that enabled service delivery despite the limitations of social distancing. The big question here is, which of these new processes and technologies would remain in service after the pandemic is over? and what will be their long-term effect?

January 4, 2021

A lot has been discussed about an omnichannel service strategy, which organizations should adopt for seamless sales and services experience. Omni-Service is a strategy focusing on human interaction thru various digital channels enabling the service agent, salesperson, and managers, to deliver outstanding customer experience in a straightforward way.

November 16, 2020

"Zoom fatigue" is the tiredness, worry, or burnout associated with overusing virtual platforms of communication. Zoom fatigue is particularly hazardous when customer service agents are concerned. And yet, serving customers over video, particularly during times of social distancing, has many benefits. So how can a service provider alleviate agents' zoom fatigue?

November 2, 2020

When customer service agents work from home, things get tricky. Service reps never work in isolation, as it is their job definition to be constantly communicating. Here we examine agent communications and suggest methods to ensure they remain effective when working from home.

October 13, 2020

Businesses naturally associate creativity with advertising. We expect our marketing department to come up with creative ideas for new campaigns. But what about creative customer experience?

October 13, 2020

Q-nomy's concept of avatar queuing has definitely made an impact. It is a unique solution where the patient's place in line is presented not in the form of numbers or letters, but as a cartoon figure – an "avatar".

October 1, 2020

Most service providers are now taking steps to reopen their customer service locations or shops under the strict regulations of public health and social distancing. When examined closely, it becomes apparent many of these steps make sense from a business perspective regardless of the current constraints.

September 15, 2020

We've previously discussed the outlook for queue management, and outlined some of the likely characteristics of "the new normal of queuing for customer service". We've mentioned that this will become inseparable from appointment scheduling. Now let's focus on this latter topic.

August 26, 2020

Q-nomy's Q-Flow V6.3, released last week, focuses on speed. More precisely, it focuses on enabling organizations to set up their solutions and go live quicker than ever before. Because we're living at a time when agility, and the ability to adapt to rapid changes, can make or break a business.

August 11, 2020

We've recently announced the release of several new Q-Apps designed to enable omnichannel customer service management. These applications, built on the robust software platform of Q-Flow 6, provide a wide range of capabilities, such as multi-channel customer communications, an integration framework, and integration with specific leading vendors.

July 22, 2020

While most of the world is still somewhere in-between lock-down and re-opening, we turn our eyes to the future to ask: what will be the new normal for customer service, after the dust has settled? In this post, we'll focus on one aspect of service center operation, which is queuing.

May 20, 2020

Stores and service centers are now starting to reopen. Businesses and consumers are concerned that required safety measures would render the new customer experience unpleasant. Technology, such as Customer Journey Optimization, can help alleviate some of these fears.

March 26, 2020

When face to face interactions become impractical, service providers transition to digital, and particularly video interactions. Instead of shutting down the service branches, businesses can connect branches to virtual queues, and allow their staff to provide digital customer service.

March 17, 2020

As the world faces the implications of the coronavirus outbreak, customer service managers now have to deal with a particular challenge. Despite digital transformation strategies, many businesses still rely on face-to-face interactions to set essential activities in motion, such as signing important contracts or customer authentication. Q-nomy provides virtual and scheduled interactions to help companies continue to offer their services while keeping business and health top of mind.

February 25, 2020

Whether you are a service provider for the telecom industry, financial services, healthcare, or other customer-facing sectors, you are likely already aware of the need for appointment scheduling. If you are running a call center, however, chances are you just attend to call as they come. Well, maybe it's time to start thinking about scheduling phone calls as well...

February 4, 2020

Telecommunication service providers today are facing many challenges that are critical to the success and possible survival of their business, including effectively implementing a digital transformation strategy and providing exceptional customer experience.