Author: Keith Kirkpatrick

Microsoft’s Viva Sales, Copilot Driving Productivity Gains for Sales Professionals
July 12, 2023

Microsoft’s Viva Sales, Copilot Driving Productivity Gains for Sales Professionals

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the internal usage of Microsoft Viva Sales, a generative AI-infused tool aimed at driving productivity gains among sales professionals, and discusses...
Balancing Average Resolution Time With CSAT in the Generative AI Era
July 11, 2023

Balancing Average Resolution Time With CSAT in the Generative AI Era

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group discusses the impact of generative AI on the average resolution time (ART) metric, and the steps that organizations must take with agent...
AI Contact Center Training Tools Provide Efficiency, But Need Guardrails
July 11, 2023

AI Contact Center Training Tools Provide Efficiency, But Need Guardrails

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Zenarate’s AI Coach and its most recent funding round, and discusses the lack of information provided around bias mitigation in the...
Study Generative AI Is Most Helpful to Less-Skilled Contact Center Workers
July 10, 2023

Study: Generative AI Is Most Helpful to Less-Skilled Contact Center Workers

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers the results of an MIT Sloan/Stanford University study that found generative AI is most helpful to less-skilled contact center workers, and...
Amdocs Announces a Telecom-Specific Generative AI Framework
July 10, 2023

Amdocs Announces a Telecom-Specific Generative AI Framework

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Amdocs’ announcement of amAIz, its generative AI solution, and discusses how grounding open AI models with telecommunications-specific expertise and experience can...
Webex Expands US Federal Government Contact Center and Calling Offerings
July 5, 2023

Webex Expands US Federal Government Contact Center and Calling Offerings

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Cisco’s announcement that Webex Contact Center for Government has gained FedRAMP authorization, and highlights the value of non-federal government agencies selecting...
Using Telephone Outreach to Close the Loop After Negative Feedback
July 3, 2023

Using Telephone Outreach to Close the Loop After Negative Feedback

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers an undesirable travel interaction, and discusses the best practices that were employed by the company after negative feedback was provided to...
June 23, 2023

Providing Customer Experience on the Go Via Mobile Applications

June 23, 2023

Managing the Challenges of Using the Contact Center Agent as the Human in the Loop

June 23, 2023

Educating Customers About Home IoT Network Security

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June 22, 2023

Zendesk Acquires Workforce Management Software Provider Tymeshift

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Zendesk’s acquisition of Tymeshift, an AI-powered workforce management solution built exclusively for Zendesk customers, which enables the improved management of agent...

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