KCS Methodology
Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS®) integrates knowledge creation and improvement into operational processes.
Capture knowledge that is generated during customer interactions to share in a central repository (often a knowledge base) for access by internal users, customers, or both. Then by reusing and optimizing the shared knowledge, you gain value in operational efficiency, self-service success, and organizational improvement.
- Integrate the reuse, improvement, and creation of knowledge into the problem solving process.
- Evolve content based on demand and usage.
- Develop a knowledge base of collective experience to date.
- Reward learning, collaboration, sharing, and improving.
Maintained by the Consortium for Service Innovation, KCS methodology began in 1992 and updated to KCS v6 in 2016, which is also when the name changed from Knowledge-Centered Support to Knowledge-Centered Service.
KCS Principles and Core Concepts
KCS adoption enables knowledge to become demand-driven and self-correcting by the people who use it every day.
KCS Principles
- Abundance
- Create Value
- Demand Driven
- Trust
Core Concepts
- Transformation and Continuous Improvement
- Buy-In At All Levels
- Leadership is Required
- Collective Experience
- Collective Ownership
- Seek to Understand Before Seeking to Solve
- Sufficient to Solve
- Knowledge Integration
- Coaching for Success
- Assess Value
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KCS® is a service mark of the Consortium for Service Innovation™.