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Fixing Enterprise Search, Part 1 of 2
In the first part of his two-part series on fixing enterprise search, Joe Hilger discusses some common misconceptions around “fixing” search for organizations. He describes the importance of looking beyond search engine tools to truly understand an organization’s search requirements and … 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
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
Agile Content Strategy
Rebecca Wyatt delivered this presentation at a Web Content Mavens Meetup on June 12, 2017. The topic for the Web Content Mavens event was Applied Agile & Design Thinking for Web Projects. Presentation Overview If you create web content these pain points … 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
Meetup: Design Thinking Lab Happy Hour (June)
EK’s own Claire Brawdy will be facilitating a Design Thinking exercise at this month’s OpenIDEO DC Happy Hour. Her activity is focused around the Define phase of Design Thinking. Event Description When working within the Design Thinking process, defining the … 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
Meetup: Knowledge Management Association (KMA) D.C. (June 2017)
At the Feb 2016 KMA meetup, Michael Lennon led an exploration of how the Science of Happiness was impacting both KM and Organizational Performance. The session began with the question “Is KM dead or alive?” In this meetup, Mr. Lennon … Continue reading