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Knowledge Management Foundations: KCS Principles

KCS This course will provide support center supervisors, managers, and directors with a set of practical steps for capturing, storing, and successfully reusing mission-critical knowledge.

This course will help you adopt a Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS℠) strategy that will shift your support center from a call-centric model to a knowledge-oriented model.

KCS, developed by the renowned Consortium for Service Innovation, defines a set of principles and practices proven to allow IT service and support organizations to significantly:
  • Improve service levels to customers.
  • Gain operational efficiencies.
  • Increase the organization’s value to their company.


What You Will Learn:
  • How to efficiently create and maintain quality, easy-to-find content in the knowledge base
  • Ways to motivate support analysts to use the knowledge base and to effectively assess individual and team contributions
  • How to articulate the value of knowledge management practices for your organization
  • A strategy for sustainable success that minimizes investments in knowledge workflow and maximizes the return
  • How to identify and avoid the common pitfalls associated with knowledge management
Who Should Attend:
  • Support center professionals, supervisors, managers, and directors responsible for managing their support centers’ resources and improving service.

Course Prices

Includes certification exam.
Classroom
Interactive three-day course among peers.
HDI Members: $1495 per person
Non-members: $1595 per person
See Schedule Below
Onsite
A one-day course conducted at your company’s site.
Request information
or call 1-800-248-5667.


Classroom Training Schedule


*KCS is a Service Mark of the Consortium for Service Innovation

  Knowledge Management Foundations: KCS Principles

  • Unit 1: The KCS Process (What and Why)

    Section 1: Introduction
    Maximizing Your Learning Experience
    About HDI and Customer Satisfaction Index Service
    Exercise: Business Goals?
    Exercise: 3 Letter Body Parts

    Section 2: What is KCS?
    Double Loop Process
    The Solve Loop
    The Evolve Loop
    Exercise: Process Change – the KooshTM Ball
  • Unit 2: How to Implement KCS

    Keys to a Successful Adoption

    Section 1: Strategic Framework
    Defining the Objectives

    Section 2: Content Vitality
    The Concept of a Solution
    Example: The Solution Elements in Practice
    Solution Life Cycle
    Managing Solution Quality

    Section 3: KCS Roles and Responsibilities
    Exercise: Characteristics of a Coach

    Section 4: Workflow/Process Considerations
    Structured Problem Solving (SPS)
    Workflow and Technology
    Solution Visibility

    Section 5: Performance Assessment
    A Framework for Performance Assessment
    Exercise: Performance Measurement Scenarios
    Summary of Performance Assessment

    Section 6: Leadership
    Motivators

    Section 7: Communications Plan
    Communications is the Key
    Exercise: Communication Strategies
    Exercise: FAQs and Objections:

  • Unit 3: Adoption Roadmap

    KCS Adoption Program
  • Unit 4: Summary of the KCS Transformation

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