In this episode, Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock welcome Rick Delisi, Lead Research Analyst at Glia and co-author of "The Effortless Experience" and "Digital Customer Service," to discuss how AI is transforming customer service in banking and credit unions.
Rick reveals why the future of contact centers isn't about eliminating human interaction; it's about automating the routine so humans can focus on building real relationships. Learn how banks are breaking the age-old trade-off between efficiency and customer experience, and why starting with internal-facing AI tools is the safest path to transformation.
Discover the surprising truth about which customer satisfaction metric actually predicts loyalty (hint: it's not what most companies are measuring), and why customer expectations for AI are shaped more by bad experiences with other companies than by anything your organization does.
THREE KEY TAKEAWAYS:
1. AI for Everyone, Not Just Customers: AI can transform your entire organization, from helping frontline agents with real-time guidance, to giving managers instant analysis capabilities, to enabling executives to make data-driven strategic decisions. The most successful implementations use AI across all levels: customers, agents, managers, and executives.
2. Start Internal, Then Scale Outward: Begin with internal tools that help agents, managers, and executives first. This builds confidence, allows teams to experience the technology firsthand, and creates incremental improvements that build organizational trust. By the time you roll out customer-facing AI, your entire team understands and trusts the system.
3. The best predictor of customer loyalty isn't satisfaction scores or Net Promoter Score, it's the Customer Effort Score. Ask customers, "How much effort was required for you to get what you needed?" after each interaction. Low-effort experiences drive loyalty, and this metric gives you actionable insights into where to improve your service processes.
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