Course Overview

This workshop 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 KCS strategy that will shift your support center from a call-centric model to a knowledge oriented model .Knowledge-Centered Support (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

Successful completion of this workshop will allow you to:


• Efficiently create and maintain quality, easy-to-find content in the knowledge base
• Motivate support analysts to use the knowledge base, and to effectively assess individual and team contributions
• Articulate the value of knowledge management practices for your organization
• Adopt a strategy for sustainable success that minimizes investments in knowledge workflow and maximizes the return
• Identify and avoid the common pitfalls associated with knowledge management

Course Curriculum

Unit 1: The KCS Process (What and Why)

Section 1: Introduction

  • Maximizing your learning experience
  • About HDI and CSI
  • Exercise: Business Goals?
  • Exercise: 3 Letter Body Parts

Section 2: What is KCS?

  • KCS Double Loop Process
  • The Solve Loop
  • The Evolve Loop
  • Exercise: Process Change – the Koosh 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

Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for support center professionals, supervisors, managers, and directors responsible for managing their support centers’ resources and improving service.

Pre-requisites:
Participants must be familiar with the basic concepts of a support center as well as its purpose and primary tasks.

Training Methods and Pricing
On-site: A three-day course conducted at your company’s site.

Classroom: Interactive three-day course among peers.

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