From single channel to omni channel the intent was to enable enterprises to seamlessly engage with their clients across them, improve client experience by ensuring context and history are in all channels seamlessly. To date there are 3000 apps available for download from the Apple App Store. Do we really need an exuberance of micro capabilities of each app across different channels in order to interact/ fulfill our daily lives? And if so how many are truly interconnected and contextualised? Or should the importance be of maintaining the social-connectedness from the events happening around the client’s ecosystem in order to ubiquitously interact and communicate? Channel-less is simply a window into the core client experiences.
With the exponential increase in the sophistication and proliferation of technology current communication are just not adapted to the client’s needs. Some require an intensive publishing cycle and don’t provide the necessary features as offered by other platforms. At the same time multitude of information sources makes it difficult to fill them all. Rather than adding more channels creating subsets of it, enterprises should think about orchestrating the experience base on the client’s interaction.
Defining personalized touchpoints for the client represents the journey a client engross in association to the brand which reflects precious insightful moments of truth. Regardless of channel(s), the interaction(s) be it via a channel or an IOT appliance or VR or AR, the interaction(s) should continuously be able to recognise and support the concurrency in which a client can be interacting through multiple mediums at the same time or span across but it is as if he/she is interacting as one.
In the forseable future digital assistant(s), which are permeable and omnipresent, will share and perform the responsibilities of the physical client. Acitivities will be perform by many digital assistants representing the client taking place concurrently in the various interaction mediums. E.g. a client maybe in front of a digital device performing a transaction while at the same time his/her digital assistant discusses wealth planning with a financial advisor while another is engaged with other administrative activity. Or be be it starting an activity through one interaction and finishing the same activity in another.
Simplicity is the key to remain flexible and able to rapidly change as the next wave of digital disruption takes hold. What the client wants is to connect/interact seamlessly in their ecosystem. It is not about a channel(s) it is is about providing and making the connection seamless and ubiquitous.
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