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Increasing customer service efficiency through artificial intelligence chatbot

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  • Ivan Martins De Andrade
  • Cleonir Tumelero

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Purpose - This study investigated the contribution of artificial intelligence (AI) to the efficiency of customer service. This study contributes to services technological innovation in process management, a field not yet settled in the literature. Design/methodology/approach - AI is a multidisciplinary field of research that has stood out for the technological dynamism provided to organizational products and processes. The study was carried out at an Analytical Intelligence Unit (AIU) of a Brazilian commercial bank that applies AI integrated with IBM's Watson system. The study used data content analysis, structured and supported by Atlas.ti software. Findings - The notorious AI cognitive maturity evolution allowed 181 million interactions and 7.6 million attendances in 2020, improving services efficiency, with gains in agility, availability, accessibility, resoluteness, predictability and transshipment capacity. The chatbot service reduced the queues of call centers and relationship centers, allowing the human attendant to perform more complex attendances. Research limitations/implications - The main limitations of this study relate to the research cutout and its borders, such as the choice of participants and their areas of activity, and the choice of the unit of analysis. Practical implications - The results indicated that attendance through the virtual assistant increased by more than a 1,000% from 2019 to 2020, demonstrating the bank was technologically ready to face the Covid-19 pandemic effects. Originality/value - In line with the evolutionary theory of innovation, the authors concluded that technological scaling in AI allows exponential gains in customer service efficiency and business process management. They also conclude that the strategy for creating AIUs is successful, once it allows centralizing, structuring and coordinating AI projects in R&D cooperation, cognitive computing and analytics.

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  • Ivan Martins De Andrade & Cleonir Tumelero, 2022. "Increasing customer service efficiency through artificial intelligence chatbot," Revista de Gestão, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 29(3), pages 238-251, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:regepp:rege-07-2021-0120
    DOI: 10.1108/REGE-07-2021-0120
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    1. Jorge Andrés-Sánchez & Jaume Gené-Albesa, 2024. "Not with the bot! The relevance of trust to explain the acceptance of chatbots by insurance customers," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, December.

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