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Customer ServiceIntermediate

Organise a Multilingual Service-Desk Knowledge Base

Create a governed normal state that reduces search and makes stale, missing or unauthorised content visible.

22 minutes

Scenario

Agents search three folders, a wiki and personal notes during customer calls. Two obsolete refund instructions remain discoverable, while the approved escalation form is known mainly to senior staff.

Your role
Knowledge operations lead running a digital 5S cycle
Method
5S Workplace Organisation

Evidence pack

e1

Search

Median retrieval time is six minutes; the 90th percentile is fourteen.

e2

Quality

Seven wrong-version incidents were reported in the last quarter.

e3

Ownership

Forty-one percent of wiki pages have no owner or review date.

e4

Retention

Refund decisions and customer records follow separate retention rules.

e5

Access

Temporary agents can read two folders containing internal-only policy notes.

e6

Demand

Peak-hour agents bypass the wiki when answers take longer than three minutes to find.

Constraints

  • No record may be deleted solely because of low usage.
  • Customer and internal-only data must keep approved access controls.
  • The arrangement must be tested during peak work.

Case steps

Work through each prompt using the evidence pack. These guided cases support self-directed practice; server-scored attempts are not available yet.

1
Open Response

Define the digital workplace, users, work and baseline measures.

2
Structured

Create keep, relocate, quarantine and authorised-removal rules for current content.

3
Structured

Design the normal location, naming, owner, expiry and abnormal-state signal.

4
Open Response

Define peak-load testing, measures, check cadence and improvement trigger.