1. What are the business benefits and limitations of IVR at Verizon and others?
Benefits:
It allows callers to get answers to standard questions simple and easy in seconds, without the need for an agent.
It allows customers to get information they need, when they need it 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
It allows a reduction in human resources tasks such as routing calls to the right agent, answering frequently asked questions, and providing status of customer orders.
The IVR has the capability to store answers made by callers and provide minute by minute details to customers to keep them satisfied.
It saves the companies millions of dollars.
Limitations:
The Interactive Voice Response (IVR) can be frustrating and infuriating to customers because they want to …show more content…
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