Why did LivePerson choose Infosys as a strategic partner? It enables LivePerson’s Conversational Cloud technology and Infosys’ commerce and marketing technologies to work together, helping clients move from outdated ways of engaging to AI-powered messaging experiences. Our growing base of customers continue to discover new ways to improve their brand experience and boost revenue by leveraging our intelligent engagement platform. But that’s a small number in the grand scheme of things on our $1.6 billion Engage business, especially when you take into consideration that we’re always planning in 8% to 12% churn of our existing revenue for a variety of reasons. Manlio Carrelli, EVP, Global Revenue Organization, and Alex Spinelli, Chief Technology Officer discuss how LivePerson’s Conversational Cloud and AI – together with Infosys – transforms the customer experience. LivePerson partners with Infosys to help brands have AI-powered conversations with their consumers, via messaging channels, as well as on websites and apps. Infosys has the technological prowess and experience to scale up and meet the overwhelming demand for conversational experiences that consumers are asking for across the globe. Its technology allows consumers to connect with businesses through Facebook Messenger, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, Google Rich Business Messenger and Alexa.
For example, this allows the customer to seamlessly transition their chat conversation from their laptop to their mobile phone, or to re-initiate the chat with the same agent at a later time or date. In this session Rob LoCascio, LivePerson Founder and CEO will help business leaders reimagine their go-to-market models by embracing conversation commerce through asynchronous communication, AI and automation to transform the lives of both consumers and contact centre employees. LivePerson enables brands to use Conversational AI to build direct, ongoing, personalized connections with consumers on the messaging channels they love using with family and friends. Conversational AI lets consumers make purchases and get answers seamlessly and quickly. In addition, Corless said the company has tens of thousands of talented employees so the best approach is to make the commitment to take them from the middle of the pack to the front edge of technology skills. As part of the employee recruitment process, Spinelli believes it’s imperative to make the company’s values and mission clear.
As part of Inc.’s inaugural celebration of the Best-Led Companies in the U.S., we asked several dozen honorees which the books that have inspired and informed their leadership strategies. The digital skills gap is hampering digital transformation at more than half (54 percent) of companies surveyed by Korn Ferry, and by 2020, the technology, media and telecommunications industries may be short more than 1.1 million skilled workers globally. It serves automotive, retail, banking, telecommunications, insurance, government and travel industries. Retailers are wielding big data analytics to drive new customer experiences and increase sales while players in banking, insurance, and pretty much every other industry are making a beeline to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate and reimagine key business processes. To fill in the gaps in its talent pool, SUSE puts a lot of energy into fostering relationships within the open-source communities, leveraging what it calls SUSE ambassadors within these networks to help attract key talent. One of the key differences between this and other Deloitte training initiatives is that the content and delivery is focused on where the employee wants to evolve their career. Ritz-Carlton regularly uses Gallup’s employee engagement metric to evaluate each staff member’s engagement in the organization.
To keep its talent pool refreshed, LivePerson relies heavily on recruiting from target universities as well as on employee referrals. Once the coursework is completed, the system updates that information on the human resource record, tags that employee with the skill set, and feeds that information into the staffing system so they could be tapped for new positions requiring those skills. Ever broader audiences will be able to analyze and query data without explicitly maintaining database servers and without any database administration skills. While tech stocks are enjoying a blockbuster day, it’s unclear whether the rally will sustain itself. Four consecutive quarters of double-digit margins and three consecutive quarters of reaching the Rule of 40. And I think all this demonstrates our ability to enhance the operating leverage, while aggressively growing the business. While it’s hard to find tech talent now, the situation is likely to worsen, according to research from Korn Ferry Institute.