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Case Study Of: Quality in Practice Knowledge Management For Continuous Improvement at Convergys

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CASE STUDY OF

QUALITY IN PRACTICE
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FO
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AT
CONVERGYS

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INTRODUCTION
 Convergys Corporation is a member of the S & P(Standard &
Poor) 500 and the Forbes Platinum 400
 The global leader in integrated billing , employee care, and
customer care services
 It serves top companies in telecommunications, Internet, cable
and broadband service, technology, financial service in more
than 40 countries
 It software processes more than 1.5 million individual bills
each day to support more than 120 million subscribers
 It employs more than 48,000 people in 48 customer contact
centers, data centers and other offices in the United States,
Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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INTRODUCTION CONT…

 Convergys developed a vision “To establish a high


performance culture focused on continuously improving the
value we provide to our clients, shareholders and employees.”
 To deploy continuous improvement (CI) as a key part of the
company’s culture and achieve this vision, Convergys followed
a two-step approach.
1. Establish leadership support and financial relevance.
2. Support and encourage total participation establish CI as
part of everyone’s job.

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CI PORTAL
 To accomplish this goal, Convergys created a tool to
facilitate sharing and accelerating improvement efforts.
The tool they chose was a Web-based employee intranet
that was called the CI portal

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HOW DOES CONVERGYS'S CI PORTAL
HELP TO ALIGN IMPROVEMENT IDEAS
AND PROJECTS WITH THE FIRMS
STRATEGIC GOALS?

 The CI Portal provides an infrastructure for companywide


knowledge management activities.
 Support and encourage total participation establish CI as part
of everyone’s job.
 All improvement efforts and success stories from throughout
the organization can be accessed through the CI Portal

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WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROCESS USED TO
TAKE EMPLOYEE’S IDEAS FROM THE
CONCEPT STAGE TO THE “BEST
PRACTICE” STAGE?

 Convergys introduced a Best Practices Knowledgebase to


the CI Portal
 Facilitate the sharing of knowledge across the
organization
 Potential Best Practices were reviewed and endorsed
before it can be designated as a best practice
 Proper documentation of potential Best Practices

 The VP is asked to review the practice

 The VP designates the practice as a Best Practice 6


HOW ARE THE BEST PRACTICES AND TOOLS
USED TO PROMOTE LEARNING AND
DEVELOP A KNOWLEDGE-BASED
ORGANIZATION VIA THE CI PORTAL ?
 CI Portal helped to access resources to facilitate or accelerate
improvement efforts
 More than 40 specific improvement tools are accessible through the
CI Portal support their standard improvement methodology, which is
referred to as The Improvement Process or TIP
 Provides an ongoing source of continual training for employees on
an as –needed basis and a way to refresh and reinforce continuous
improvement approaches
 Self – paced training modules have been developed specifically for
CI and the CI Portal and are available to all employees to augment
learning and personal development
 CI Tools are documented in the CI Portal in a simple, consistent,
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easy to use format- chart, action plan, activity analysis
THANK YOU…

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