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The Growth Story of Chatbots and AI in 2019
Chatbots and AI have been one of the fastest-growing topics of discussion and deployment among businesses over the last five years, with 2019 providing many bellwether moments in adoption and success. Here’s what you missed if your business chatbot journey starts in 2020 to get you up to speed. All eyes are on the future…
January 10, 2020
Disrupting With Chatbots Is Good, But Chatbot Disruptors Must Tread a Fine Line
The claim that businesses are “disrupting” markets with technology, services and new features like chatbots is getting a bit long in the tooth, but plenty of marketers still want to bang that drum. Consider the wider issues with your planned disruption and whether you need to focus on something other than disruption for disruption’s sake.…
December 10, 2019
Chatbots – The Talk of Digital Transformation
Companies are adopting in ever increasing numbers digital transformation strategies that create new business models, improve process efficiencies and gain competitive advantage. However, many organizations are still in the early stages of digital transformation. The reasons include lack of resources, budget constraints and cultural issues; but perhaps the biggest obstacle is the overwhelming complexity of…
October 10, 2019
Chatbots Could Help Learners and Teachers in Language Education
More and more we find ourselves imagining the ways in which chatbots can assist us in our day-to-day lives. They have synergy with small tasks in our consumer habits and there is general agreement on their use value in ecommerce, healthcare and financial services. We understand that chatbots have commercial benefits, but when it comes…
September 23, 2019
How ‘Chatbot’ Narratives Have Evolved in News Media: 1997-2019
It might seem as if words like ‘chatbot’, ‘AI’ and ‘machine learning’ have exploded in news media over the last ten years. That’s because they have and it’s really only in the last five years that the word ‘chatbot’ has become much more widespread and more commonly used by newspapers. Interestingly, it’s only in the…
September 3, 2019
Chatbots Unlocking Customer Value and More as Technology Improves
As with other aspects of customer-technology, first there was the task, then came the data and then the need to manage and use it properly. Customer spreadsheets and databases became CRM tools, point of sales records became data for recommendation engines and marketing, and so on. The same is true with chatbots, as businesses look…
August 30, 2019