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Bill Price

Bill Price is the President of Driva Solutions (a customer service and customer experience consultancy), an Advisor to Antuit, co-founded the LimeBridge Global Alliance, chairs the Global Operations Council, teaches at the University of Washington and Stanford MBA programs, and is the lead author of The Best Service is No Service and Your Customer Rules! Bill served as Amazon.com's first Global VP of Customer Service and held senior positions at MCI, ACP, and McKinsey. Bill graduated from Dartmouth (BA) and Stanford (MBA).

Qantas Interruptus: How to Ruin the Customer Journey

We all tend to use the tagline “analyze the customer journey” to discover opportunities to improve the customer experience, since it’s clear that companies...

How to Increase First Contact Resolution with AI, Bots, and Big Data

Building on my April 2018 column “Using AI, Bots, Big Data, and Analytics to Reduce Demand for Support”1, one of the seven vexing challenges...

How to Improve Customer Experience and Slash Operating Costs Using Robotic Process Automation

By Bill Price, Partner Antuit & President Driva Solutionsand Scott Tweedy, VP Driva Solutions As business leaders we are all aware that “digital is changing...

Using AI, Bots, Big Data, and Analytics to Reduce Demand for Support

If we set as an overall goal “How can we create and sustain a consistent and awesome customer experience across multiple channels & touch...

Net Promoter Score: Four Problems, Two Remedies

Net Promoter Score or NPS has been around for about 18 years. It’s a simple way to get a pulse on how your customers...

6 Key Statements to Propel Your Customer Experience Program

Sometimes we get wrapped around too many axles defining and dimensioning customer experience programs. Instead, if we examine these 6 key statements and re-shape...

Creating Personalized Service Using Predictive Analytics

Let me start by telling three intersecting stories. First, back in the 1990s I was leading MCI Call Center Services and beginning ...

Applying Speech and Data Analytics to Improve Customer Experience

In my earlier columns I have addressed several ways that you can improve customer experience using Big...

Is the Customer Always Right? Should You Fire Some of Your Customers? 3 Ways CX Analytics Can Help

Recent customer rage reminded me of a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) panel 10 years ago when the...

How Will Analytics, AI, Big Data, and Machine Learning Replace Human Interactions?

Calls for the death of human intelligence and human interactions are premature. Or are they? ...

Why Don’t Retailers Make it Easy to Cancel Their Catalogs? Navigating the Maze to Drop 47

I have a confession to make. My wife and I do a lot of online shopping, and ...

Applying Big Data, Skyline, and Snowballs for Contact Optimization

Amazon.com’s early Contact Optimization program slashed contacts per ...

Using Big Data to Build an Integrated Voice of the Customer Program: A 6-Step Guide

In my last column I introduced the need for “Measuring and Mastering Omni-Channel FCR (web, IVR, centers)”, noting that today...

Measuring and Mastering Omni-Channel First Contact Resolution

It used to be fine if we could handle contacts quickly in the phone channel but over...

Using Analytics to Improve Agent Performance: Anchors, Sleepers, and Weak Links

In my last column “Using Big Data Analytics to Find Your Best Agents and Supervisors” I introduced a new way...

Using Big Data Analytics to Find Your Best Agents and Supervisors

In my last two columns “Starter Kit for Customer Experience Data Analytics” and “3 Tips for Customer Experience Analytics”, I...

3 Tips for Customer Experience Analytics

In my last column “Starter Kit for Customer Experience Data Analytics” I posed four issues that you ought to consider...

Starter Kit for Customer Experience Data Analytics

Applying data analytics to understand better what drives Customer Experience (CX) is a hot topic, but one that might appear...

Using Me2B and Analytics to Avoid Cross-Selling Disasters

The hue and outcry about Wells Fargo Bank’s egregious internal scam cross-selling unwanted and unneeded products and services to its...

Will Chat Bots Be Boon or Bust for Customer Experience?

One of the hottest topics today revolves around chat bots, “computer programs that mimic conversations with people using artificial intelligence...

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