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What is a Content Type?
More often than ever, our clients’ Intranet projects involve developing and implementing Content Types to improve the creation and management of content. This includes the creation of news articles, policies, guidelines, and other common Intranet content items. The overwhelming amount … Continue reading
Gaining Executive Buy-In for Knowledge Management Initiatives
Here are the top three ways to gain executive buy-in and foster a shared vision for your knowledge management initiatives. Continue reading
Improving Findability using Content Deconstruction
Lengthy documents spanning tens or hundreds of pages are commonplace in today’s enterprises. However, they provide a host of issues when trying to integrate into a company’s intranet. These issues can be solved by the use of content deconstruction – breaking large documents into more granular, manageable units of content – for improved tagging and findability. Continue reading
What is Knowledge Management and Why Is It Important
As I’ve often asserted, Knowledge Management struggles with its own identity. There are any number of definitions of KM, many of which put too much stress on the tacit knowledge side of the knowledge and information management spectrum, are overly … Continue reading
Four Habits of Highly Effective ScrumMasters
With the expansion of agile into government and beyond IT, there are more and more ScrumMasters – facilitators who lead teams through Scrum processes as part of agile adoption. Unfortunately, the ScrumMaster role is becoming a victim of agile’s success: … Continue reading
Data Uniformity Inside of Google Analytics or the Use of Filters
Google Analytics does not automatically apply uniformity of data, making it difficult to parse and analyze information about your web properties. Thankfully, Google Analytics offers us a solution in the form of filters. Filters can be used for any number … Continue reading
Who Are Your Users?
When we’re helping organizations with their knowledge management strategy, we always begin with an assessment of the Current State to identify their unique KM challenges and opportunities, mapping what’s working and what has the potential for improvement. A significant portion … Continue reading
Performance Testing Basics
At EK, we help organizations solve their Knowledge Management (KM) problems. Typically, part of the solution is an integrated set of tools that improve the way that content and information is shared. These solutions only work when they are widely … Continue reading
Selecting an Enterprise Search Engine
Search engines are one of the most critical tools in any Knowledge Management (KM) platform. A well implemented enterprise search engine enables easy access to information and breaks down silos between teams. Given the importance of search engines, it is … Continue reading
How to Practice Agile in Traditional Management Roles
Organizations in the 21st century face great opportunities and threats presented by fast paced technological advances. According to Forbes Magazine, the most defining traits of a successful 21st century organization are: Relentless innovation, which requires a new mindset that liberates … Continue reading