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  • Teleperformance Optimizes its Go-to-Market with Digital Integrated Business Services

    Feb 14, 2020, by Ivan Kotzev

      At the end of January 2020, NelsonHall attended Teleperformance’s global analyst meeting in Mumbai. Here are some insights into the company’s progress since the Intelenet acquisition in October 2018 and the formation of Teleperformance Digital Integrated Business Services (D.I.B.S.). Repositioning as a knowledge partner Teleperformance’s reorganization in 2019[...]

  • CX Services M&A Activity Hots Up: Why Telus International is Acquiring CCC for €915m

    Dec 10, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      Telus International announced last week the acquisition of Competence Call Center (CCC) for ~€915m. The deal marks the biggest M&A in front-office BPO (CX Services) for 2019. It is also one of several investments in the DACH region and part of a global trend for market share acquisitions. CCC gives Telus International scale for DACH markets CCC is a private CX services[...]

  • CSS Corp Addresses Commercial Challenges of Cognitive CX Transformation

    Nov 25, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      One of the main challenges facing front-office automation projects is the adoption of commercial terms protecting the interests of both clients and CX services providers. In an industry dominated by traditional per FTE and per hour/minute pricing, to be successful, end-to-end digital transformation requires significant initial investments, new KPIs, a stake from the vendor, and a lon[...]

  • Entering the Voice Bot Age: Tech Mahindra Launches m.ai.a

    Nov 01, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      Voice bots are a tiny part of the customer service and outsourced CX services market today. However, they are significant both in terms of investment and the attention they are receiving from organizations. In both smart home devices (voice assistants) and traditional telephony, voice bots are growing (*see a sample of news items from October 2019 at the end of the text). With div[...]

  • Democratizing Analytics: Tech Mahindra Virtual Analyst

    Sep 30, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      A common theme in NelsonHall’s Advances in Analytics BPS market analysis is that organizations’ need to operationalize data has matured beyond BI and simple visualization. Companies do not want to wait days to build a report and weeks, or even months, to generate insights. They need to fill the AI-analytics continuum, democratize data discovery and data manipulations, and[...]

  • CX Automation in Practice: Reality Check with Webhelp

    Sep 13, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      The inevitable automation of the contact center role has become such as surefire prediction in mass media, by CEOs, and even politicians, that a more realistic view of the industry may seem impossible. In this blog, I look at Webhelp’s assessment of the CX automation landscape and the realistic challenges and opportunities in the market. Customer-facing automation requires s[...]

  • Comdata: How Customer Insights Are Transforming CX in Retail & CPG

    Aug 05, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      A common theme in the upcoming NelsonHall CX Services in Retail & CPG report is the increasing need by sector clients to generate and operationalize insights from their customers. Technology has shifted the power to consumers who are less loyal to brands and change their buying behavior more frequently, creating micro-segments. However, while having a wealth of data such as cu[...]

  • Will Crowdsourced Customer Service Get Solv(ed)?

    Jun 26, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      Crowdsourcing and different types of freelanced customer support models pre-date the current household names using these models in leisure and travel, personal transportation, and delivery services. Many of these early attempts died out because of poor business models, or remain effective today but in niche markets (e.g. gaming) or on a small scale (e.g. U.K. mobile network, giffgaff[...]

  • Seizing the Automation Opportunity: Alorica’s Automated Discovery Process

    May 28, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

    One of the first stumbling blocks of business process transformation is identifying meaningful automation opportunities. A typical process will have a management consultant, system expert, or Lean Six Sigma specialist to monitor manual processes for a set time, collect performance data, and make recommendations. Companies supplement this assessment with executive ideation sessions, operational[...]

  • Concentrix VOC: Measuring CX Transformation

    May 03, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

    Despite the evolution of contact center technology (think conversational AI), the spread of digital channels (think smart speakers), and the dramatic change in the ways companies interact with customers (think mobile-first), the industry KPIs for measuring the impact of these transformations remain limited. CSAT, NPS, and more recently, Customer Effort Scores (CES) measure different elements o[...]

  • Proactive Social Media Engagement: Best Practices from Startek & Aegis

    Apr 17, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

    Consumers are evolving their preferred ways of interacting on social media: ‘spontaneous’ stories are replacing produced content, transparency and privacy are driving the spread of private groups and influencing regulatory push, and machine learning is personalizing conversational commerce. The impact on brands is greater need for new types of content, investments in automation and[...]

  • Chat Services: Teleperformance’s Playbook & Targets

    Mar 27, 2019, by Ivan Kotzev

      In NelsonHall’s 2017 report, ‘Multi-Channel CMS – Delivering Digital Customer Experience’, I forecast that the chat channel, in all its forms, would become 18% of the global CX services outsourcing market by 2020, growing by 30% CAGR. What fuels this sizable growth are the many benefits to brands offering sales and support over text channels, the advancement o[...]

  • Enabling CX Digitalization: A Look at CSS Corp's Yodaa

    Dec 20, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

      In this vlog Ivan Kotzev looks at CSS Corp’s digital experience suite Yodaa and how it unifies the company’s analytics, automation, and multichannel tools and models for digitalizing support.[...]

  • Highlights from Alorica’s Analyst Day, November 2018 (vlog)

    Nov 30, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

      Ivan Kotzev shares highlights from Alorica's recent analyst day, including current CX initiatives and focus areas, business growth, and investment priorities.[...]

  • The CX Consulting Race: New Players, New Models, and Tech Mahindra’s Example

    Nov 06, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

      NelsonHall has recently published a report on Digital Customer Experience Services, and one of the trends explored is the evolving competition in customer experience (CX) consulting. The traditional ecosystem includes distinct players with clear-cut roles: Big five management consulting firms such as Deloitte or PwC, providing strategy-level advisory which covers CX Niche UX [...]

  • Arvato CRM’s JV with Saham Group Consolidates EMEA Position

    Sep 21, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

    Bertelsmann, the parent company of Arvato CRM Solutions, has announced plans to combine Arvato CRM with the CX services business of the Pan-African Saham Group. The joint venture will have 50/50 ownership, with ~ €1.2bn combined annual revenues and ~48k employees in 25 countries. The deal is expected to close in January 2019. Saham Group & partnership history Founded in 1995 in [...]

  • The CX Workforce Challenge & How Vendors Are Responding

    Aug 31, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

      In February, industry veteran and CEO of SYKES, Chuck Sykes, commented during the earnings call on CX services market trends: ‘… in the U.S., at least in my time, there is no time in the company's history that I can recall seeing this level of labor challenge. And it actually is something that you're going to see in a lot of developed countries around the world.&[...]

  • Tech Mahindra BPS’ Approach to CX Process Automation

    Jul 23, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

      Currently, the level of automation in the front-office is lower than it is for middle and back-office processes, with reasons including the lower cost of handling customer-facing processes, established offshore models for labor arbitrage, and lack of client interest. However, the upside of this relatively slow uptake is that automation can now be applied to multiple areas of CX, incl[...]

  • Concentrix Acquires Convergys, Becomes Second Largest CX BPS Player Globally

    Jun 29, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

    With its Q2 results yesterday, SYNNEX, the parent company of Concentrix, announced its intention to acquire Convergys, the second largest CX services provider and a public company with ~$2.8bn annual revenues. SYNNEX will pay ~ $2.43bn (includes $26.50 per share and repayment of $315m net debt). The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2018. The largest CX Services provider in Nor[...]

  • Teleperformance to Acquire Intelenet, Makes Strategic Bet on India & Analytics

    Jun 15, 2018, by Ivan Kotzev

      After several months of media speculation, Teleperformance officially announced yesterday an agreement to acquire Intelenet Global Services from the private equity Blackstone for a total consideration of $1bn. Boost for Indian market The deal will expand Teleperformance’s topline growth and have a positive impact of around +10% on the company’s earnings per share in[...]

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