Building and Sustaining Corporate Culture
As EK has grown over the last several years, I’ve found that more and more of my time, energy, and late night ponderings have been dedicated to sustaining our incredibly special corporate culture. Like a parent who always see their … Continue reading »
The Value of Taxonomy: Why Taxonomy (Still) Matters
After decades of taxonomy design consulting, I’m still amazed that some organizations doubt the value of effective enterprise taxonomy design. Though knowledge and information management technologies, as well as associated search technologies have changed, the core business value and use … Continue reading »
Leveraging KM as the Foundation for Artificial Intelligence
This presentation by EK’s Zach Wahl, originally presented at the annual Federal/DoD KM Symposium on May 15, 2019, discusses how knowledge management serves as a key foundation for Knowledge AI.
Knowledge Management Trends in 2019
As part of my keynote address at the KM Showcase last week, I wanted to kick off the conference with a view of what I see as the top KM trends today. These are based on the discussions I’m seeing … Continue reading »
Beyond Find: The Five Levels of Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge
At Enterprise Knowledge, our work in the field of Knowledge and Information Management has given us the opportunity to explore a wide range of organizational goals and business drivers with our clients. Over the years, these goals have progressed from simply … Continue reading »
EK’s Year in Review – 2018
What a year we’ve had together at Enterprise Knowledge! As 2018 draws to a close, I’m happy to take a step back to summarize EK’s year. In 2018, we experienced our most exceptional growth yet. We expanded our capabilities and … Continue reading »
Making KM Clickable with Search
I’ve been in the business of Knowledge Management Consulting for the vast majority of my career and, in my experience, one of the most challenging aspects to KM is its intangibility. I’ve helped an array of organizations to define their … Continue reading »
Achieving Real AI Through KM
At EK, we’ve consistently talked about the foundational value of Knowledge Management to achieve some of the more advanced information management, findability, and semantic web capabilities organizations have been seeking. At the same time, we’ve increasingly been coming across organizations … Continue reading »
Moving Your Knowledge Management Journey Forward with Design Thinking
As I’ve often asserted, one of the major reasons KM efforts fail is the lack of early, frequent, and consistent involvement from end users. We also continue to see organizations struggle with early KM strategy and decision-making, failing to get … Continue reading »
Beyond Findability
For most of my career, one of my favorite “made up” words has been findability. It is the perfect term to explain the “why” of taxonomy, search, and, in many cases, Knowledge Management in general. When I talk findability, I … Continue reading »