Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 13 | Page 46

FEATURE: COGNITIVE CRM understand human language engage customers and try to solve problems intelligently backed by machine learning. If the bot cannot solve an issue then it can redirect you to a physical human agent. 2 A customer sends an email in an angry tone. With current systems it goes through the hierarchy of assigned teams which might not be well equipped to address human sentiments and thus respond incorrectly. Cognitive technology will scan the email and try to analyse the customer sentiments and if customer seems dissatisfied use emotion analytics to understand the level of dissatisfaction along with the customer interaction history and importance and redirect the email to be responded to by users with the right skill set and along with appropriate pointers. 3 In traditional CRMs, turnaround times are kept low to maximize productivity. Escalations only happen if that turnaround time is violated prompting action from managers. With cognitive CRM’s any and all customer interactions are monitored in real time so any communication which does not fit the organization’s requirement is avoided, leading to a lesser probability of customer annoyance. 4 Cognitive CRMs can analyse customer reviews/inputs on social media, providing detailed understanding of possible patterns of customer dissatisfaction. 5 Physical branches can have a small fleet of robots which use the human speech based on natural language processing, audio/visual analysis to solve customer problems and less waiting time. At the customer hub Along with customer relationship and demographics data, cognitive technology will try to measure the overall satisfaction and happiness of the customer after analysing the past interactions, structured and unstructured data as a new and vital customer metric. 6 46 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com