Leveraging NICE CXone to Augment Human and Operational Excellence at iQor

Digitally Irresistible

A Partnership Approach to Industry-Leading CX

This week we welcome Andy Traba and PJ Singh to the Digitally Irresistible podcast.

Andy and PJ both hold key leadership roles that have helped forge a triumphant business partnership between iQor and NICE CXone, a comprehensive end-to-end customer experience technology provider that specializes in digital-first solutions.

Andy, NICE CXone's vice president of product marketing, contributes an impressive 20 years of CX expertise. He proudly labels himself as a "mutt" who leads his team with a diverse repertoire of skills and insight spanning product marketing, data science, and behavioral science.

Throughout his 16-year journey with iQor, PJ has also held an array of roles and currently serves as chief digital officer. He is the visionary spearheading iQor's digital transformation and artificial intelligence strategy. Under PJ's leadership, iQor's international team of experts in core infrastructure, application development, data science, and beyond are leveraging digital solutions that augment human service delivery.

For example, Symphony [AI]™ is iQor’s next-generation solution that elevates the employee experience. Our Symphony [AI] ecosystem optimizes every stage of the employee lifecycle from recruitment through training and nesting to the production floor.

The result is harmonious performance powered by generative AI, active learning training strategies, and other innovations developed under PJ’s leadership and informed by iQor’s years of accumulated process knowledge.

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In this episode, we explore the powerful business partnership that combines iQor’s world-class, single-source customer service strategies with NICE CXone’s cutting-edge CX technology. This joint venture amplifies our delivery of human and operational excellence for the next level of business process outsourcing services.

Join us as we examine the innovative features of NICE CXone, discuss the advantages of the partnership for iQor’s clients, and plan the future of our collaboration. Get ready for an enlightening dialogue about the fusion of technology and human ingenuity that creates irresistible customer experiences.

NICE CXone's 3-Step Roadmap for Mastering CX Technology

NICE CXone is a highly regarded, cloud-based CX technology company known for its innovative features and industry-leading capabilities. Andy highlights three game-changing aspects that set the business apart from its competitors.

1. Interaction-centric CX platform.

The importance of the customer experience has increased significantly, leading companies to invest heavily in technology to ensure optimal customer interactions. NICE CXone, an interaction-centric platform, offers a wide range of features and capabilities that assist businesses in providing exceptional customer experiences.

By integrating robust customer experience capabilities into their current systems, companies can optimize their customer interactions. This comprehensive approach allows organizations to seamlessly manage customer interactions across multiple channels and provide personalized and holistic customer experiences.

2. Convergence of best-of-breed applications into a single platform.

NICE CXone is a powerhouse of innovation, combining years of expertise and top-notch applications into one platform. Now, users can effortlessly navigate a broad range of capabilities within a single, user-friendly interface.

3. Purpose-built AI everywhere in Enlighten.

NICE CXone harnesses the power of customer data to create the world's only purpose-built AI for customer experience. This artificial intelligence, called Enlighten, is designed to function across the entire platform and optimize each application to make every customer interaction a smarter experience.

How NICE CXone and iQor Harness a Holistic and Collaborative Approach to AI

PJ delves into iQor's rich history of delivering best-in-class CX services and the company's commitment to embracing the ever-evolving CX technology landscape.

Before the partnership began, iQor identified the need for a holistic ecosystem that addresses all aspects of CX including workforce management, intelligent self-service, RPA, data analytics, and omnichannel service support. NICE CXone's comprehensive approach to CX and their relentless digital innovation drove iQor’s decision to commit to a business partnership.

NICE CXone's transformative capabilities have helped iQor optimize our service offerings, create positive customer experiences, and provide valuable BPO solutions to clients by augmenting human performance with AI and meeting the customer wherever they want support.

Unlocking Business Process Optimization With the Winning Combination of CX Technology and Human Expertise

Both PJ and Andy emphasize the importance of striking the right balance between technology and human ingenuity for effective CX delivery.

Andy explains that customer interactions are complex and open-ended. When interactions expand from single-channel voice support to omnichannel support that includes non-voice chatbots, SMS, social media, and other touchpoints, the overall volume of interactions to analyze for actionable insights increases, as does the difficulty level for businesses to accurately decode the information.

It takes the optimal combination of AI—including machine learning and natural language processing—and human insights to unlock the data's full potential.

According to Andy, as much as 85% of the customer experience with a brand occurs during customer service interactions. This directly correlates to customer satisfaction that results in lasting brand loyalty.

This is why the ability to consistently and accurately leverage customer insights represents a high value proposition for businesses. iQor’s strategic outsourcing solutions maximize these customer insights to drive continuous service improvements and generate strong returns for our clients.

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Creating Shared Advantages Through a Shared Commitment to Unleashing AI's Full Potential

NICE CXone's products complement iQor's proprietary interaction analytics platform, VALDI, which uses AI to mine voice and non-voice customer interactions to monitor compliance, gauge customer sentiment, guide script improvements, and more.

Another of iQor's in-house tools is sQan, our coaching optimization platform. sQan increases the value of interaction insights by evaluating every session for coaching opportunities and recommending proactive strategies for frontline supervisors to support their teams.

AI That Augments Irresistible Human Ingenuity to Provide Optimal CX

While AI plays a critical role in automating routine tasks and extracting valuable insights from large volumes of data, the human touch remains essential for customer service that builds genuine, heartfelt connections between brands and their customers.

The partnership between iQor and NICE CXone serves to augment human capabilities with AI, not replace them. The augmentation paradigm offers agents real-time guidance and actionable insights to help them navigate complex interactions, improve performance, and guide more satisfying customer journeys with the empathy and service quality customers crave.

The Road Ahead: An Enduring Partnership Leading to a Sustained Legacy of Operational Excellence

As Andy and PJ anticipate the future, they pledge to continue investing in the partnership and pushing the envelope for what iQor and NICE CXone can achieve together.

Andy explains that NICE CXone is dedicated to maintaining its position as the top digital CX platform through ongoing innovation and investment in its technological offerings. Similarly, iQor's commitment is to continue to deliver best-in-class support with configurable and flexible BPO solutions that create smiles for our clients and their customers.

NICE CXone's interaction-centric platform, enhanced by AI, empowers iQor to provide efficient and intelligent management of customer interactions. Andy describes iQor as a design partner whose ongoing collaboration with NICE CXone will continue to influence the future direction of their product portfolio.

Fortified with this partnership approach, iQor and NICE CXone are poised to continue their investment in digital and strategic CX innovations that sustain mutual reputations for CX excellence and keep clients and customers smiling.

The Fun Question

In addition to keeping up to date with the latest in AI, Andy can be found cheering on his twin children at their various sports games. Andy's passion for data science and sports merge in a hobby he undertakes with old college friends. Using an algorithm to predict NFL game outcomes, Andy and his team enjoy competing in the Westgate SuperContest, which they won in early 2018.

PJ also enjoys supporting his two children at swim meets, soccer games, basketball games, or whatever new activity their hearts desire.

You can learn more about these inspiring CX thought leaders by checking out Andy’s LinkedIn and PJ's LinkedIn. Discover more about NICE CXone on their website at nice.com.

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