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Feedback: Style Matters! Allscripts Does It Right

November 18, 2013 by David Kay

Reports are boring.  Can we all agree on this? Sure, reports may contain interesting information.  But there’s something deeply stultifying about the actual presentation of the data in commercial reporting packages.  With apologies to my friends at business intelligence vendors, it’s almost as though the designers had set out to create bad “before” examples for […]

Filed Under: Culture, KCS, Measures, Resources

What Do We Do About All Of These Myths?

July 2, 2013 by David Kay

Goodness me, listen to me go on about these metric myths.  If you’ve made it this far, you can be forgiven for asking, “That’s all fine, but what do I do about it?”  Metrics exist in a context, and that context isn’t going to change itself just because some consultant writes a few blog posts.  […]

Filed Under: Culture, Measures

Metrics Myth 11: Any Initiative for Which You Can’t Define Clear Outcomes Isn’t Worth Doing

June 14, 2013 by David Kay

This is another inference from “you get what you measure.”  If you don’t know how to measure an initiative, you don’t know what you’re trying to achieve.  And if you don’t know why you’re undertaking an initiative, you shouldn’t do it.  Fair enough. But isn’t it sometimes the case that we have an intuition that […]

Filed Under: Culture, Measures

KCS At Work: Daktronics Does It Right

May 1, 2013 by David Kay

There’s nothing like hearing about KCS from someone who is actually doing it—and benefitting from it.  Our friends at Daktronics just sent this great email along, and kindly gave us permission to share it on the blog. Daktronics is a South Dakota-based manufacturer of LED signboards, from high school football scoreboards to major league arena […]

Filed Under: Culture, KCS, Lynchpins

Metrics Myth Nine: NPS is Whatever I Say It Is

March 23, 2013 by David Kay

I’ll just say it right now: I love the Net Promoter Score.  It may not be perfect, but in my experience, it’s the most powerful tool that Service and Support executives have to demonstrate their value to the entire enterprise, become more strategic in how they think about their organization’s mission, and focus the entire […]

Filed Under: Culture, Measures, Voice of the Customer

Metrics Myth Eight: Hold a Weekly Ops Review Where Changes are Scrutinized and Punishments are Meted Out

March 1, 2013 by David Kay

Operations Reviews, or ops reviews, are common management tools in Support organizations.  If you’re going to measure something, goes the logic, it’s best to act on those measurements.  Making course corrections sooner means that things get fixed sooner, with less customer impact.  Bad habits don’t have time to take root.  Quick, decisive action at a […]

Filed Under: Culture, Measures

Metrics Myth Seven: Find Industry Peers and Benchmark Against Them

February 21, 2013 by David Kay

As a consultant, I find it rare to spend fifteen minutes with a capable executive before she asks me to assess how they’re doing compared with other companies.  It’s a fair question: how can you know if you’re best in class unless you know how well other organizations are doing?  And if you’re not yet […]

Filed Under: Culture, KM, Measures

Metric Myth Six: Do an ROI Analysis Before Investing in a Major Purchase or Initiative

February 12, 2013 by David Kay

There’s nothing wrong with doing an ROI analysis—as a matter of fact, I think it’s a great idea.  It’s just that the way that we, as an industry, typically use them is all backwards.  They’re shouldn’t be a checkpoint; they’re a process. Let’s back up and define our terms.  A Return on Investment (ROI) analysis […]

Filed Under: Culture, Measures

Metric Myth Five: There Are Good Industry-Standard Measures. Use Them.

January 31, 2013 by David Kay

(A quick note to start: our February KCS Foundations Workshop is filling up.  If you or a colleague are interested, now would be a good time to register.) It’s a cliché that you get what you measure.  So before we start picking from the standard list of reports provided by your KM, CRM, or BI […]

Filed Under: Culture, KM, Measures

Metrics Myth Four: If We’re Doing a Great Job of Delivering Customer Satisfaction and First Contact Resolution at High Efficiency, We’re Doing a Great Job of Support

January 24, 2013 by David Kay

  Because, you know, that’s what support does.  Close cases.  Quickly.  In a way that satisfies customers.  Mission accomplished; let’s grab a beer! Not so fast. This myth begs the question of why the Support organization exists.  Because most of the activity, headcount, and budget are tied up in closing cases, it’s easy to assume […]

Filed Under: Culture, KM, Measures

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