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How a Knowledge Graph Supports AI: Technical Considerations
In 2023, ChatGPT’s explosive popularity made Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models a household name. In essence, these models are a key component of natural language processing (NLP), a field of AI, focused on enabling computers to understand and generate human … Continue reading
Five Lessons in Developing and Deploying a Modern Knowledge Portal
Knowledge Portals are some of the most exciting and promising emerging KM solutions. They create new capabilities to deliver a wide range of unstructured content, structured data, and connections to people and resources in the context of user’s work. Over … Continue reading
What is A Data Fabric Architecture and What Are The Design Considerations?
Introduction In today’s data-driven world, effective data management is crucial for businesses to remain competitive. A modern approach to data management is the use of data fabric architecture. A data fabric is a data management solution that connects and manages … Continue reading
From Data to Knowledge… Strategy
At EK, we help organizations across multiple industries and geographic locations tackle a wide range of challenges in dealing with the data, information, and knowledge that supports their strategic goals. Data management teams within these organizations are rising to the … Continue reading
The Difference Between Communities of Practice (CoP), Special Interest Groups (SIG), Employee Resource Groups (ERG), and Centers of Excellence (CoE)
Communities of Practice (CoPs) have been a long-standing tool in the knowledge manager’s toolbox as a way to foster learning, drive innovation, and capture institutional knowledge. But how do CoPs differ from other organizational community programs? Within any given organization, … Continue reading
When a Knowledge Portal Becomes a Learning and Performance Portal
EK’s CEO, Zach Wahl, previously published Knowledge Portals Revisited, a blog that spells out an integrated suite of systems that actually puts users’ needs at the center of a knowledge management solution. We’ve long acknowledged that content may need to … Continue reading
EK at Ten: Looking Back on Our Greatest Knowledge Management Solutions
We recently celebrated the ten year anniversary of Enterprise Knowledge (EK). As founders, this was very special for both Zach and I. I’ve been reflecting on the amazing people, clients, and projects we have been involved with and pondering all … Continue reading
Five Ways to Demonstrate the Value of KM [In the Age of AI]
Knowledge management (KM) is steadily growing beyond its traditional role of providing the framework for sharing, using, and managing the knowledge and information of an organization: it now also serves as the foundation for advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). We … Continue reading
How a Knowledge Graph Can Accelerate Data Mesh Transformation
Despite a variety of powerful technical solutions designed to centrally manage enterprise data, organizations are still running into the same stubborn data issues. Bottlenecks in data registration, lack of ownership, inflexible models, out of date schemas and streams, and quality … Continue reading
Expert Analysis: How Do I Build an Expert Finder?
The search for subject matter experts (SMEs) is an age-old problem when looking for assistance and mentorship or building a team around a subject matter. Expert Finders solve this problem by allowing users to search for colleagues with specific expertise. … Continue reading