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Dashboards: Save Red, Yellow, and Green for Traffic Lights

November 5, 2018 by David Kay

Traffic Signal

We were at an industry conference a couple of weeks ago where we saw a lot of dashboards.  Dashboards were in every presentation.  Every vendor demo featured at least one.  […]

Filed Under: Measures

Picking the Right KCS Coaches

September 24, 2018 by David Kay

We’re doing a webinar with the KCS Academy called KCS in Action: Coaching and Licensing on October 2.  In this blog post, we’re providing a sneak preview of one of […]

Filed Under: Coaching

David’s Favorite Business Books–A DB Kay Library

May 21, 2018 by David Kay

Most of the business books I read don’t leave much of an impression.  These are the ones that did. 

Filed Under: Resources

Listen Up! Strategies for Hearing the Voice of the Customer (VoC)

February 20, 2018 by David Kay

VoC to the Rescue One of our clients does a fantastic job supporting a critical and complex hardware, software, and wireless networking solution.  But, they faced a familiar challenge: since […]

Filed Under: Voice of the Customer

KCS Principles Can Fix Content Management

October 2, 2017 by David Kay

We’re covering a big topic, so this is a longer post than usual.  TL;DR: Apply KCS principles to Content Management, too. We’ve written before about the differences between KM and […]

Filed Under: Content Management, KCS

Changing Expectations of Support

July 10, 2017 by David Kay

The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) recently published a report entitled The Changing Expectations of Support (membership required, and I encourage you to join if you haven’t!).  It’s eye-opening.  The […]

Filed Under: Customer Experience

The Care and Feeding of Taxonomies, Part 3: How to Design Them

May 15, 2017 by David Kay

Having said why it’s important to get taxonomies right, and what makes a good taxonomy, I should let you know how you can do taxonomy design on your own.  In our […]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Knowledge Representation

KCS Case Study: Extreme Networks Does It Right

February 27, 2017 by David Kay

The Consortium for Service Innovation just published a new KCS case study we wrote highlighting the success of Extreme Networks in implementing KM, self-service, and communities.  I encourage you to […]

Filed Under: KCS, Resources

The Care and Feeding of Taxonomies, Part 2: What Makes a Good Taxonomy?

February 7, 2017 by David Kay

Now that we’ve seen why taxonomies are important, it’s time to discover what makes for a good taxonomy.  Effective and useful taxonomies have the following properties. Common Across Systems. Many enterprise […]

Filed Under: KM, Knowledge Representation, self-service, Uncategorized

“Sensible” Support Policies and their Unintended CX Consequences

January 27, 2017 by David Kay

TL;DR: It’s better to trust and empower Tier 1 than to make customers run through the gauntlet because you only allow Tier 3 to do certain things. I want to […]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Intelligent Swarming, Rants

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