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KCS in the Real World

July 22, 2014 by David Kay

Some of my favorite emails from customers are forwards of emails from team members reflecting on KCS. Here’s a great example, with grateful thanks to the Customer Who Shall Remain Nameless who shared it.

Filed Under: KCS, Lynchpins

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 […]

Filed Under: Culture, KCS, Lynchpins

Summer Reading! Lessons Unlearned

June 26, 2012 by David Kay

Just because a book is full of really great information doesn’t mean it can’t be fun to read.  For example, take John Ragsdale’s wonderful first book: Lessons Unlearned: 25 Years […]

Filed Under: Culture, Lynchpins, Resources, Technology

Leadership in Action: The KCS Commitment

June 8, 2012 by David Kay

We wrapped up a KCS design workshop at Carestream Health yesterday.  We closed with an exercise I love: the participants spent the last hour presenting what they’d learned, done, and […]

Filed Under: Culture, KCS, Lynchpins

Communicating the What and the Why: Intuit Does it Right

March 5, 2012 by David Kay

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    Effective, persistent communication is the cornerstone of KCS.  Team members need to be engaged emotionally—to feel like they’re part of a big, important quest—and practically—knowing exactly what they […]

Filed Under: Coaching, Culture, KCS, Lynchpins

Hack Your Knowledgebase

February 16, 2012 by David Kay

We all hate our knowledgebase tools sometimes.  We might like the people we work with at the vendor, and there are those really cool features, but…seriously?  I can’t just get […]

Filed Under: KCS, KM, Lynchpins, Technology

You are not a scalable model

April 26, 2011 by David Kay

We mean this in the nicest way, but you don’t scale. You’ve put yourself in that process step with the best of intentions. You’re going to write the Content Standard […]

Filed Under: KCS, KM, Lynchpins

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