Q-nomy's Blog: Customer Experience And More

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Financial services and customer-focused banking are experiencing a retail revolution. To optimize the customer experience, a financial service organization needs to understand their customer base now, and in the future.

Q-Flow Central is a cloud-based platform provided by Q-nomy that serves as a secure and easy link between businesses running Q-Flow, and their customers. In a move recently announced to its business partners, Q-nomy now supports hosting Q‑Flow Central services in any Azure Region.

In the previous post, we mentioned that Q-nomy has been studying what value chatbots can bring to users in the context of the omnichannel. We learned that chatbot conversations often end up with the user resorting to human agent support. With this in mind, we created the myVisit Chatbot.