For global travel and hospitality brands, customer experience (CX) is a complex, multinational orchestration of journeys. At Our Vacation Centre—a prominent travel loyalty provider under the global Arrivia umbrella—managing these dynamics involves coordinating a highly distributed, multilingual footprint. In an industry vulnerable to sudden geopolitical shifts and changing consumer habits, the organisation has shifted its …
Is providing faster, more responsive customer service via your contact centre a priority for FY2027? For many Australian businesses, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. That’s because the contact centre has ceased to be seen as a standalone cost centre. Instead, it’s become the beating heart of the enterprise and a critical touchpoint; somewhere customer …
With a new financial year fast approaching, optimism is in short supply across Australia’s commercial landscape. Improving operational efficiency and customer experience will help your business withstand whatever economic shocks and knocks lie ahead. Higher fuel prices, courtesy of the conflict in the Middle East, have had a knock-on effect for businesses of all stripes …
The Australian customer experience (CX) landscape has reached a critical inflection point. The era of speculative AI experimentation is drawing to a close, replaced by an urgent mandate for enterprise-wide integration. While the first half of 2025 saw a staggering 119% surge in AI agent adoption across the country, moving these initiatives out of the …
Singapore’s plan to train 40,000 tech professionals in agentic AI by 2029 is a serious and necessary investment. For the CX industry, the more pressing question is whether enterprise environments will be ready to deploy AI effectively when the new cohort of trained AI engineers arrives. Based on what we see across enterprise AI deployments …
A customer does not see the systems behind their request. They do not see the service ticket, CRM record, policy workflow, approval queue or handoff between departments. They see the wait. On the other side of that wait is often an employee doing everything they can to help. They are copying information between platforms, chasing updates and filling the …
Picture this: you’re meeting a valued client to resolve a problem with your product. To protect the relationship – and your brand – you need to fix it for them quickly and seamlessly. But, halfway through the meeting, the team member tasked with fixing the problem starts randomly interrupting the client, misunderstanding basic questions and …
Imagine you wake up on a Tuesday morning, grab your phone, and see 14 unread notifications from your email app. You open it up, hoping for an update on a package you’re expecting or a message from a friend. Instead, your inbox looks like a digital shouting match: This is the daily reality of email …
AI is rapidly becoming entrenched in customer service operations, and its impact is reshaping the way contact centers function. Organisations are deploying AI to analyse customer interactions and uncover patterns that would have been impossible to identify manually at scale. The pressure to adopt these technologies is growing because the potential value is enormous. While …
Historically, the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform operated as two distinct silos. This separation created swivel-chair syndrome, where agents manually toggled between screens, leading to fragmented data and frustrated customers. Audrey William, Industry Analyst and founder of Crayon IQ, comments, “The convergence of CCaaS and CRM really …
