Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping customer expectations, service operations, and competitive advantage, simply moving a contact center to the cloud is no longer enough. The CS Value Engine™: Eight Leadership Decisions for the AI Era of Customer Service by Philip Bush presents a practical leadership framework for organizations ready to move beyond the traditional cost-center model and transform customer service into a measurable source of business value. Drawing on patterns from large-scale service transformation programs, the book challenges leaders to rethink what customer service is designed to accomplish and how technology, people, processes, data, and AI must work together to achieve it.The CS Value Engine™ Framework: A comprehensive architecture built around ten integrated transformation domains, connecting strategy, customer experience, operating model, process, workforce, data, technology, AI, and value realization.Eight Critical Leadership Decisions: A practical sequence of decisions that helps executives determine what they are building, how the organization should operate, what work should change, how employees should be prepared, what data and technology are required, how far AI should go, and how success should be measured.The Five-Level Maturity Model: A structured way to understand where an organization stands today from Traditional and Digital operations through Cloud, Intelligent, and Agentic service and identify the capabilities needed to progress.A Value-Driven Approach to AI and Transformation: Learn why AI should not be treated simply as a cost-cutting tool, and how human capability, intelligent automation, customer experience, operational performance, and measurable business outcomes can be brought together into one transformation strategy.For Chief Customer Officers, Chief Operating Officers, CIOs, transformation leaders, customer service executives, and senior decision-makers, this book provides a clear way to think about the organizational choices behind successful service transformation. It explains why technology modernization without organizational change often produces only a more modern version of the old operating model, and why genuine transformation requires leadership accountability, strategic clarity, workforce preparation, process reinvention, strong data foundations, and disciplined value realization. Rather than prescribing a particular vendor or technology platform, the CS Value Engine™ approach is designed to remain platform-agnostic and outcome-focused, helping leaders make better decisions regardless of their technology environment. The CS Value Engine™ is ultimately about a fundamental shift in perspective: customer service should not be managed simply as a cost to minimize, but as a strategic capability capable of creating value for customers, employees, and the business. If your organization is preparing for a major contact center transformation, evaluating AI and agentic service, modernizing its operating model, or trying to understand why previous technology investments failed to deliver the expected results, this book offers a structured leadership framework for deciding where to start, what to build next, and how to know whether the transformation is actually working.
