When the Bot Breaks: Why Service Recovery Is Where AI-Era Loyalty Is Won

The Michelli Experience by Dr. Joseph A. Michelli

Sep 18, 202610:36Business

Failure is inevitable—and as AI mediates more of the service, it’s multiplying. Joseph Michelli explains the “service recovery paradox”: why a brilliantly fixed problem can make a customer more loyal than one who never h...

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