High-touch

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High-touch refers to the involvement of personal attention and service. [1] In business, the term often refers to situations where trust between the customer and employed individual(s) is necessary. [2] High-touch areas include: medicine, wealth management, real estate, and legal. [2] Stock trading done by humans, as opposed to automated trading or using online brokers, is also referred to as high-touch. [3]

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Origins

The term was coined in 1982 by John Naisbitt in his book Megatrends. [4] It was explored further by Naisbitt in his follow-up book High Tech/High Touch. [5]

In medicine

High-touch may also refer to the frequency in which a surface is touched. [6]

In pharmacology, high-touch may refer to medicines that require temperature control, ongoing drug management, or compliance monitoring. [7]

High-touch was coined as a term in response to "high tech." [5] High-tech, as opposed to high-touch, is when customers don't need human interaction to perform activities such as onboarding, ordering, and account management. [8] High-tech services, such at chatbots, allow customers to get what they want on-demand. [8]

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