This article explores the answers of 224 contact centre professionals when we asked ‘What Are the Greatest Challenges in Managing Your Knowledge Base?’
The results have been taken from the Knowledge Management chapter of our ‘What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now’ 2021 survey report, which was sponsored by ProcedureFlow.
What Are the Greatest Challenges in Managing Your Knowledge Base?
Challenges for contact centres when managing knowledge bases – results:
Challenge | Percentage |
---|---|
Finding Information Quickly | 58.6% |
Information is Difficult and Time Consuming to Update | 37.0% |
Out of Date Information | 32.7% |
Employees Don’t Like Using Our Knowledge Base | 27.8% |
Not User Friendly | 27.2% |
Duplicate Information | 25.3% |
Only a Small group of People can Make Changes | 23.5% |
Hard to Learn How to Use | 10.5% |
Finding Information Quickly Is the Biggest Challenge
More than half of contact centres admit that their advisors often fail to find information quickly when using knowledge systems.
In fact, 58.6% of contact centres are struggling to combat this problem, indicating that the search function within knowledge bases is causing difficulties.
Other major issues mostly revolve around the quality of content that’s stored within the system.
For example, the second and third greatest challenges included information being difficult to update (37.0%) and out-of-date information confusing advisors (32.7%).
These problems bring to life the value of setting up reviews and monitoring knowledge metrics to bolster the system’s reliability.
This survey was done in partnership with Akixi, NICE, Nuance, Odigo, Poly and ProcedureFlow.
Related Research
To download the full copies of our ‘What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now’ survey reports follow the links below:
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2023 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2022 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2021 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2020 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2019 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2018 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2017 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2016 Edition)
- What Contact Centres Are Doing Right Now (2015 Edition)
You can also download the full copies of our ‘Is Your Contact Centre Delivering Exceptional Customer Service?’ survey reports by following the links below:
- Is Your Contact Centre Delivering Exceptional Customer Service? (2020 Edition)
- Is Your Contact Centre Delivering Exceptional Customer Service? (2019 Edition)
- How Contact Centres Are Delivering Exceptional Customer Service (2016 Edition)
For more great information check out our other Contact Centre Research
Author: Robyn Coppell
Published On: 4th Aug 2022 - Last modified: 10th Oct 2023
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