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Maximizing and Measuring User Adoption
Similar to the old adage, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink,” you can deliver a solution that uses the most cutting-edge technology and beautiful design, but you can’t guarantee that your stakeholders will … Continue reading
Communication Techniques to Promote Adoption
Take a moment to remember how you felt the last time you were surprised at work with an announcement of a big change. No, really – pause for a moment and think about it. Whether it’s new technology, a change … Continue reading
4 Steps to Content Auto-Classification with High Accuracy
As technologies evolve, we have seen the rise of auto-tagging, auto-classification, and auto-categorization tools that attempt to take over the task for describing the content we create. These tools apply metadata tags automatically so we don’t have to. Yet, in … Continue reading
How Leaders Can Promote the Autonomy of Product Owners
Of the Product Owners surveyed in The 2015 State of Scrum Report, only 24% felt empowered to do their jobs. When the Product Owner role lacks autonomy, clear definition, or proper support, the result is often confusion and frustration for … Continue reading
Findability v. Discoverability
At first glance, the terms “findability” and “discoverability” may seem similar, if not the same. However, these terms are distinct, and both are key outcomes that should be considered in any comprehensive Knowledge Management (KM) strategy. In this blog, you’ll … Continue reading
Knowledge Organization Systems: When to Scale Up
The Findability Problem Here at Enterprise Knowledge (EK) we design systems which optimize the findability and discoverability of your knowledge and information. There are a lot of different forms this takes including: Designing a portal which allows a diverse workforce … Continue reading
Faceting is Sweet
In my nearly twenty years of taxonomy design consulting, one of the greatest challenges has been explaining the value of taxonomy to non-taxonomists. This is a particular passion of mine, and one in which Enterprise Knowledge has invested a great … Continue reading
Knowledge Organization Systems Defined
Here at Enterprise Knowledge (EK), we design systems which allow your employees and your customers to actually find the information they’re searching for. Do your employees need to find the subject matter expert in your organization who has the perfect … Continue reading
The Next Level of Integrated Enterprise Knowledge: PoolParty 6.0
A couple of weeks ago, Semantic Web Company (SWC) released a new version, 6.0, of their already extensive PoolParty Semantic Suite with some exciting new additions. Why does this matter? The PoolParty Semantic Suite is further solidifying its spot at … Continue reading
Design Thinking and Taxonomy Design
In my experience I’ve found that any successful taxonomy design effort stems from a strong understanding of the end users’ needs – hardly a small task. One way that I’ve worked to address this challenge is by incorporating Design Thinking … Continue reading