omnichannel

November 18, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

#CiscoChat Recap: Where Shopping Experience Meets the New Digital Customer

3 min read

In my first #CiscoChat I hosted together with Anabelle Pinto, we were joined by Gaurav Pant and Sahir Anand from EKN Research to share their perspective and...

October 28, 2015

COLLABORATION

Create an All-channel Retail Shopping Experience

4 min read

I always feel the rush of excitement when it comes to shopping. Whether it’s that something special to enhance my home’s interior. Or my annual vacation package. Or a pair of custom designer shoes that will add a perfect dash of sophistication to my business suit. Yes it’s true. Nothing to beat bespoke products and […]

June 30, 2015

COLLABORATION

Small Business – Make it Big with Positive Customer Experience

2 min read

Last week, I had an opportunity to attend an event for small and medium-sized businesses. It was an amazing experience. The business leaders there shared a passion for their solutions and a desire to take their companies to the next level and “make it big”. In a technology-enabled world, the features and functionalities of a […]

June 24, 2015

COLLABORATION

Introducing Cisco Remote Expert Mobile

2 min read

It seems like once a week I come across an article about how mobile devices will revolutionize customer care. To some degree, the articles all share a theme: “Make your life simpler with anytime anywhere access to… your bank, insurance provider, even a doctor. These articles are chock-full of facts and figures. They tell us […]

Finding New Directions for Retail: The Ever-Changing Store

3 min read

Hello, everyone! My name is Anne McClelland, and I am the new director for Cisco’s retail and hospitality sales team in the U.S. I’m excited to have the chance to write for Cisco’s retail blog program, and you’ll be hearing from me regularly sharing some insights, musings, and speculations on trends as well as giving […]

May 11, 2015

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Making the Branch Core to Omnichannel, and a Hub for Financial Expertise

4 min read

I recently returned from a Financial Services Summit event in China, where I discussed trends in an omnichannel delivery strategy with an audience from 30 banks. A central part of my discussion was the notion that things are not changing, they’ve already changed. Consumers across the globe have a heavy appetite for digital services. Digital […]

April 30, 2015

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Make Collaboration a Key Part of Your Litigation and Claims Handling Strategy

3 min read

For those of us who have been in this industry awhile, the Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance market continues to be plagued by inefficiencies in claims handling and litigation management. Adjusters assigned to manage the claim are geographically dispersed, have varying degrees of expertise about the loss event, and handle multiple claims simultaneously. Disparate legacy […]

March 25, 2015

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Enabling “The Easy” Button for Insurance

3 min read

Nearly a year ago, I wrote a blog titled, “Mayday for Insurance and Financial Services,” where I detailed how next-generation customer experience capabilities, such as virtual interactions between business experts and customers, are transforming business processes – such as the “Mayday” button technology offered on Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX. The purpose of that blog was […]

February 9, 2015

COLLABORATION

Back to the Future in 2015: Marty McFly’s Contact Center

2 min read

In the 1989 movie Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox’s character Marty McFly travels to the year 2015. He sees a future with hover boards, holograms, flat-screen TVs, and video calls. Not bad for predictions made over 25 years ago! But the movie didn’t give us a glimpse of what a contact center […]