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Employee 360 Views: What are they?
Leaders from every organization need accurate and up-to-date information about their employees to support key corporate decisions, enhance business profitability, and remain competitive in today’s world. One of the best ways to better understand your employees is through an Employee … Continue reading
Investing in Development Standards: Code Quality (Part 2)
As I recently discovered, adding code quality standards to established codebases is a great way to get into tussles with other team members — and it’s for good reason. Retrofitting standards to existing code can cause a significant amount of … Continue reading
We have too many KM tools. How do we declutter?
Many of our clients have amassed an impressive array of KM tools throughout the years, but it’s not always impressive in a positive way. KM tools cover a wide range of solutions, spanning from content and document management systems, learning … Continue reading
Investing in Development Standards: The Benefits (Part 1)
I recently had the opportunity to kick off two development projects and onboard two new developers to the EK team. As I introduced the two developers to their projects, I quickly earned myself a new nickname, the Code Police, and … Continue reading
The Importance of a Semantic Layer in a Knowledge Management Technology Suite
One of the most common Knowledge Management (KM) pitfalls at any organization is the inability to find fresh, reliable information at the time of need. One of, if not the most prominent, causes of this inability to quickly find information … Continue reading
AI Beyond a Prototype
How to take an AI Project Beyond a Prototype Before going “all in,” we often advise our clients to first understand and quickly validate the value proposition for adopting advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) solutions within their … Continue reading
Using Wireframes to Define and Visualize Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
As a complement to our enterprise search engagements with clients, we often end up exploring how the implementation of a knowledge graph can establish the foundation for more advanced KM and data efforts, such as smart search or AI capabilities … Continue reading
Understanding the Business Value of Headless CMS
Overview A headless CMS, one in which the content authoring “body” is separated from the content distribution channels (or heads), allows an organization to: Author once and publish to multiple channels; and Reuse the same content in multiple contexts. This … Continue reading
6 Questions to Help Determine Where to Start Your KM Transformation
“Where do we start?” It’s a question that can seem daunting for the organizations that EK works with as they contemplate moving from developing a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy to implementation. This question invites uncertainty and even skepticism as leadership … Continue reading
Developing a Business Case for Knowledge Management
Whenever I describe Knowledge Management (KM) to someone who may not be familiar with it, I often get a response of surprise due to their lack of awareness of something so fundamental and necessary for any organization to be effective. … Continue reading