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KCS ® : The Great Enabler Greg Oxton Consortium for Service Innovation

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KCS®: The Great Enabler

Greg Oxton Consortium for Service Innovation

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Agenda

•  What is the Consortium?

•  Definition of Service Excellence

•  The Consortium’s Five Initiatives

•  KCS: the Great Enabler

•  Benefits and Drivers

•  KCS Center of Excellence (CoE)

•  Localization and Translation

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•  Non-profit industry association

•  Pursuing innovative ways to improve the customer experience

•  Develop and test models through research and members’ operational experience

We Create Space to Think

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Consortium Members

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Maximize customer-realized value and success with our products and services.

• Easy and seamless service integrated into the context of use

• Continuous improvement of the whole customer experience

Definition of Service Excellence

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Customer Expectations

Expectations Not Met

“Maintenance”

Expectations Exceeded

“Added Value”

Customer Value

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Open Incident

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Self-Service and Forums

Automation * *

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Customer Expectations

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Five Consortium Initiatives

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization

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Five Consortium Initiatives Intelligent Swarming

•  Collaboration on steroids

•  A new way to align people to work

•  Connect people to content for known issues

•  Connect people to people for new issues

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization

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Five Consortium Initiatives

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization

Predictive Customer Engagement

How can we provide information

that we have…

that customers would value…

but don’t know to ask for?

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Five Consortium Initiatives

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization

Customer Success Initiative

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Five Consortium Initiatives

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an

Adaptive Organization

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization

Influencing a network is different from managing a hierarchy.

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Five Consortium Initiatives

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization

KCS

Operational Efficiency

•  Improved time to resolution, improved first contact resolution

Self-Service Success

•  Improve customer success by making what you know available to the customer as soon as you know it

Business Improvements

•  Remove customer pain points by providing actionable data to business owners

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Five Consortium Initiatives

KCS

Predictive Customer

Engagement

Intelligent Swarming

Customer Success Initiative

Leadership in an Adaptive Organization Knowledge

Knowledge is The Great Enabler

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The Great Enabler The Organization •  Automation: detection & repair, predictive customer engagement •  Cross-organizational communication and collaboration; silo-busting •  Lower operational costs •  Increased employee loyalty/lower turnover •  Reduce time to proficiency/expertise •  Automation: chat bots using KB •  Machine learning/matching problems & solutions •  Predictive capabilities based on articles reuse and linking •  Increased consistency/reduced risk of error •  Reduction in duplication •  Improved requestor success & productivity leading to increased

NPS, revenue, engagement •  Improved compliance, less variation •  Business improvements; features, functions of product/services,

process, policies •  Voice of the Customer initiatives •  Capture/retention of organizational knowledge •  Optimizing resource utilization (people work new!) •  Improved brand reputation, deliver on brand promise •  Organizational alignment/consistency to vision and across the

lifecycle •  Omnichannel capabilities & consistency

Requestors •  Self-service success •  Lower level of effort on known •  Consistent responses on known •  Reduction in time to find •  Streamlined access •  Refined solutions (reuse improves content) •  Ability to share solutions with others •  Collaboration •  Opportunity learning/potential teaching •  Value realization •  Co creation = increased loyalty •  Confidence (self, product, company) •  Trust •  Increased loyalty to companies who deliver on their brand promise Responders •  More interesting work/elimination of redundant work •  Lower level of effort on known •  Consistent responses on known •  Increased confidence during on boarding •  Less stress, more trust in peers •  Sense of belonging •  Wider scope of work, diversity •  Empowerment, direct influence •  Impact beyond one-to-one, sense of contribution •  Collaboration independent of space, time and organizational boundaries •  Faster development of resolutions •  Constant learning •  Opportunity to develop skills and new roles; coach, KDE •  Leadership opportunities •  Visibility to impact of contribution •  Cross-functional solution development

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The Organization

KCS enables:

•  Lower operational costs

•  Cross-organizational collaboration

•  Automation: •  chat bots, •  detection & repair, •  predictive customer

engagement

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The Requestor

KCS enables:

•  Faster time to relief

•  Less effort

•  Consistency

•  Trust

•  Confidence

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The Responder

KCS enables:

•  Consistent responses

• Wider scope of work, reduction in redundant work

•  Constant learning and growth

• Higher confidence, less stress

•  Recognition for value creation

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Operational Efficiency

Self-Service Success

Organizational Improvements

Capture

Structure

Reuse

Improve

Knowledge Worker

Behaviors

Realized Benefits

Benefits and Drivers

Leadership

Coaching

Licensing/Certification

Understanding & Buy-In

KDE

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Business Value? Reduce the Ratio of Support Cost to Revenue

and Improve the Customer Experience

$

Total Revenue

Time

Support Costs (historical trend)

Actual Support Costs

Additional Profit

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Business Value? Reduce the Ratio of Support Cost/User

and Improve the User Productivity

$

# of Users

Time

Support Costs (historical trend)

Actual Support Costs

Reduced Operating Expense

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KCS Center of Excellence (CoE)

•  Goal: successful KCS adoption across the organization •  Integrates KCS and change management expertise •  Small team of people

–  Project management –  Conduct assessments and design sessions –  Deliver KCS training –  Coordinate coach and KDE activities

•  Global KCS Council •  See the “KCS Adoption Guide” Appendix B

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Localization and Translation

•  Structure and style: •  Issue, environment, resolution •  Single complete thoughts

•  Demand drive: •  Article reuse rate identifies

translation candidates

•  Machine translation •  Labeled as “machine translated” •  Sufficient to solve – good enough •  Side by side presentation

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Maximize customer-realized value and success with our products and services.

Knowledge is the Key

•  Knowledge is the key enabler

•  KCS creates near term benefits as well as enabling new, long term capabilities

•  The Consortium continues to evolve both the KCS methodology and the long term capabilities

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Resources

•  KCS Principles and Core Concepts •  KCS v6 Practices Guide •  KCS v6 Adoption Guide •  Measurement Matters •  Case Studies

www.thekcsacademy.com/kcs-resources

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Thank You

Greg Oxton [email protected]

www.serviceinnovation.org www.thekcsacademy.net

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