In this practical approach Hannah will pick apart the best practice methodology for Shifting Left and share the stories of organizations who have implemented this approach. We shall discuss the process and practice of outstanding knowledge management and learn tricks on how to make this a success within your organization.
Shift left, best practices in knowledge management - SEE Hungary 2017
1. Shift Left: Best Practices in
Knowledge Management
SEE the future
Hannah Price
2. What is shift left?Costs
Average solution time
Customer 1st line 2nd line 3rd line
Shift capacity to
resolve to
front office
Shift capacity to
resolve to 2nd line
Shift capacity to
resolve to customer
(e.g. SSP)
Optimize
use of
self-service
Eliminate
waste calls
3. What we will talk about today
Our
Story
Best
Practice Results Case
Studies
4. Once upon a time …
· Welcome to TOPdesk support department …
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Story
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Practice
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5. Situation
· > 55,000 calls each year
· Many recurring questions
· Differing quality of answers to questions
· Customers don’t look for answers themselves
· More than 10 knowledge sources
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Story
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Practice
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7. Create an
incident
Search the
knowledge base
Use the
knowledge item
Close the
incident
Solve or
escalate
Close the
incident
Add to
knowledge base
Edit
Found the
answer?
Correct?
No
No
Yes
Yes
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Story
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Practice
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Studies
8. Basic principles
· Make knowledge part of solving every call
· Optimise knowledge items continually
· Work on knowledge as a collective memory
· Knowledge Management is everyone's
responsibility
· Publish knowledge to an end user portal
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Story
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Practice
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14. 6 months later …
1,200
x 10
25%
Shorter
Durations
15% less
time spent
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Story
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Practice
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2,100+
x 28
15. Lessons learned
· Support support
· Celebrate successes, report regularly
· Share challenges and problems
· Implement improvements continuously - be flexible
· Rotate coaches
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Story
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Practice
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17. 3 months later …
• 195 Knowledge Items
• 1 Knowledge Item solved 31 Calls!
• Problem Management enabled
• Average duration of 21:06 hours 15:30 hours (3 days
to 2 days)
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Story
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Practice
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18. 3 months later …
• 106 Knowledge Items
• 13% all calls solved with a Knowledge Item
• Fewer incidents after introducing the portal
1 year later …
• 204 Knowledge Items
• 19,706 search actions in the portal
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Story
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Practice
Results Case
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20. Good to know …
· May initially increase number of incidents
· Initial investment of time
· Are you up and running?
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Story
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Practice
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21. To get you started
To what extent is our Service Management solution currently used?
What are our existing or potential needs?
How would we divide these between ‘must have’ and ‘nice to have’?
How many sources of knowledge do we use?
Is there consistency in our handing of incidents?
How do end users access knowledge?
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Story
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Practice
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Studies
22. To get you started:
· Example Reports:
· % Incidents resolved by 1st line
· % Incidents resolved by first time fix
· % Escalations to 2nd & 3rd line
· % Use Self Service Portal
Our
Story
Best
Practice
Results Case
Studies