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6 Knowledge Management Best Practices to Benefit Your Contact Center
There is more content, on more platforms, in more locations, than at any time in the past. If you've managed knowledge in any context, ...
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CX Benchmark Report: Key Findings from CCCE 2023
In this benchmark report, we present data reflecting the views of customer experience (CX) leaders who attended Call and Contact Center Expo in Las Vegas, NV from April 26-27, 2023. Participants...
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5 Modern Skills for Knowledge Managers [2023 Edition]
It's an exciting time in the world of knowledge management (KM)! You have a monsoon of knowledge-related data like never before; knowledge managers that can make sense of all this data to improve...
7 Top Knowledge Management Conferences in 2023
As a knowledge manager, you always have a lot to learn! Taxonomy management, frameworks, new breakthroughs in natural language processing—it helps to connect with other knowledge managers to learn...
10 Signs You Need a Knowledge Management Consultant
To survive in a world filled with data, you must run a knowledge-driven business. To boost productivity and customer satisfaction, you need employees and leaders to understand why quality knowledge...
High Call Volume in Busy Season? Turn to Knowledge Management
Ecommerce sales around the globe are expected to account for over a fifth of all retail sales by the end of 2022—which means support teams must handle a huge volume of calls in Q4 and Q1. No matter...
10 Tips to Optimize Your Knowledge Base for Peak Season
Busy season is right around the corner. When calls start picking up, you need your customer service agents to be on their A-game. After all, 96% of customers rank customer service high when deciding...
Knowledge Management in Retail: 5 Tips for B2C Brands
As a B2C retailer, busy season is an important time; customers continue doing business if they have a good experience—in fact, 65 percent of a retailer's profits come from repeat shoppers. Repeat...
What is Knowledge Management? A Simple Explanation for Any Employee
If you’re waking up to the topic of knowledge management—you’re not alone. Interest in knowledge management has been on the rise since around 2020. As a result of a pandemic, many employees were...
Knowledge Management vs Information Management: Key Differences
If someone asks you about the difference between knowledge management and information management, you could be forgiven for thinking they were asking about the difference between knowledge and...
Is Knowledge Management Dead? Yesterday’s Approach is—Here’s Why
We live in an on-demand society where customers expect accurate answers to their questions more quickly than ever before. If your knowledge management solution produces slow or incorrect answers,...
Finding the Right Enterprise KM Solution: A Knowledge Manager’s Journey
Below is the story of how a global hardware and software manufacturer navigated the enterprise knowledge management landscape. Told through the lens of Julia Berg, a knowledge management leader,...
Conducting a Knowledge Management Assessment? 5 Steps to Follow
Updating your current knowledge management framework, processes, or technology? Begin with a knowledge management assessment, a simple way to audit every knowledge-related component in your...