This book explores how customer service can become the singular competitive differentiator for organizations in the digital era. Given the pace of digitization and the rise in customer expectations post-pandemic, organizations must focus on customer-centricity in all functions in the digital age, providing factors, enablers, and processes for customer service and sharing best practices based on research from global experts. The book is a valuable resource for students and researchers keen on understanding the new digital landscape in customer service to develop, maintain, and enhance customer relationships.

Whether you’re designing consumer electronics, medical devices, enterprise Web apps, or new ways to check out at the supermarket, today’s digitally-enabled products and services provide both great opportunities to deliver compelling user experiences and great risks of driving your customers crazy with complicated, confusing technology. Designing successful products and services in the digital age requires a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in interaction design, visual design, industrial design, and other disciplines. It also takes the ability to come up with the big ideas that make a desirable product or service, as well as the skill and perseverance to execute on the thousand small ideas that get your design into the hands of users. It requires expertise in project management, user research, and consensus-building. This comprehensive, full-color volume addresses all of these and more with detailed how-to information, real-life examples, and exercises. Topics include assembling a design team, planning and conducting user research, analyzing your data and turning it into personas, using scenarios to drive requirements definition and design, collaborating in design meetings, evaluating and iterating your design, and documenting finished design in a way that works for engineers and stakeholders alike.

This book explores how customer service can become the singular competitive differentiator for organizations in the digital era. Given the pace of digitization and the rise in customer expectations post-pandemic, organizations must focus on customer-centricity in all functions in the digital age, providing factors, enablers, and processes for customer service and sharing best practices based on research from global experts. The book is a valuable resource for students and researchers keen on understanding the new digital landscape in customer service to develop, maintain, and enhance customer relationships.

Discover the secrets of world-class leadership! When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed. The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as: Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers Empowering employees by treating them with the utmost respect Anticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concerns Developing and conducting an unsurpassed training regimen Sharing engaging stories from the company's employees--from the corporate office and hotels around the globe--Michelli describes the innovative methods the company uses to create peerless guest experiences and explains how it constantly hones and improves them. The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer-service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization.

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and the increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various sectors, the intersection of AI technologies with service marketing stands as a pivotal frontier. It is essential to explore the intricate nexus between AI technologies and service marketing strategies. Integrating AI-Driven Technologies Into Service Marketing elucidates the transformative impact of AI on key facets of service marketing, ranging from customer engagement and relationship management to market segmentation and product customization. It underscores the imperative for stakeholders in emerging economies to harness the power of AI technologies in crafting innovative and adaptive service marketing strategies. The book navigates the complexities of AI adoption while offering pragmatic recommendations for fostering responsible and inclusive AI-driven service marketing ecosystems. Covering topics such as customer engagement, influencer marketing, and sentiment analysis, this book is an excellent resource for scholars, researchers, educators, business professionals, managers, academicians, postgraduate students, and more.

A practical approach to better customer experience through service design Service Design for Business helps you transform your customer's experience and keep them engaged through the art of intentional service design. Written by the experts at Livework, this practical guide offers a tangible, effective approach for better responding to customers' needs and demands, and provides concrete strategy that can be implemented immediately. You'll learn how taking a design approach to problem solving helps foster creativity, and how to apply it to the real issues that move businesses forward. Highly visual and organized for easy navigation, this quick read is a handbook for connecting market factors to the organizational challenge of customer experience by seeing your company through the customers' eyes. Livework pioneered the service design industry, and guides organizations including Sony, the British Government, Volkswagen Procter & Gamble, the BBC, and more toward a more carefully curated customer experience. In this book, the Livework experts show you how to put service design to work in your company to solve the ongoing challenge of winning with customers. Approach customer experience from a design perspective See your organization through the lens of the customer Make customer experience an organization-wide responsibility Analyze the market factors that dovetail with customer experience design The Internet and other digital technology has brought the world to your customers' fingertips. With unprecedented choice, consumers are demanding more than just a great product—the organizations coming out on top are designing and delivering experiences tailored to their customers' wants. Service Design for Business gives you the practical insight and service design perspective you need to shape the way your customers view your organization.

This book demonstrates how generative artificial intelligence (AI), a form of sophisticated AI technology, is transforming our knowledge of how the human mind functions in relation to business leadership and decision-making. It describes the most recent findings and applications of generative AI in psychology. The book explains the relationships between language, thinking, and behavior as well as how AI may aid in our understanding of learning, decision-making, and problem-solving. In addition, it discusses the significance of applying AI properly and ethically. This book provides a comprehensive overview of how AI is increasing our understanding of the mind and how it impacts each of us professionally.