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The Benefits of KM for Contact Centers and Help Desks

In 1997, my parents graduated from college and began their professional careers at Charles Schwab, working in financial services as investment consultants. Though they had little experience, within two years, my parents were at the top of their department and … Continue reading

KM Strategy Workshop and Roadmap for a Global Product Testing Organization

The Challenge An industry-leading product testing organization was seeking the ability to quickly and efficiently gain an understanding of their knowledge management (KM) current state, and subsequently develop a foundational strategy to reach their desired state and a roadmap with … Continue reading

Knowledge Capture and Transfer Series – Part 3: Capturing Explicit Knowledge

Even though explicit knowledge refers to knowledge that has already been captured and documented somewhere in the organization, this doesn’t mean that all organizations capture their explicit knowledge in locations or formats that are easy to use. Indeed, a lot … Continue reading

Knowledge Capture and Transfer Series – Part 2: Capturing Tacit Knowledge

Organizations often lack a disciplined way to leverage the learnings and experience that their staff have acquired throughout their tenure and past experiences, and they only pay attention to this issue once it becomes too big to ignore. Examples of … Continue reading

Content Management Strategy for an International Retailer

The Challenge The learning team for an international retailer struggled to find and discover the knowledge resources that supported their work and their online learning solutions. The retailer’s learning team used an abundance of manual templates and processes, along with … Continue reading

Knowledge Capture and Transfer Series – Part 1: Getting Knowledge Capture and Transfer Right

Organizations are constantly generating new knowledge and enhancing existing knowledge in pursuit of their objectives. However, much critical knowledge is never captured. It remains inside people’s heads, isolated and undiscoverable. This leads organizations to suffer from a type of corporate … Continue reading

User-Centric Content Engineering to Improve Customer Experience

The Challenge A global financial firm needed to improve the user experience (UX) for its technical support documentation hub. Prior to EK’s involvement, the client company received user feedback expressing that interacting with the technical support documentation was cumbersome. Only … Continue reading