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A Knowledge Graph Feast
As Thanksgiving nears, many of us will be scouring recipe books looking for the perfect meal to prepare for family or friends. Visions of golden, brown turkey, creamy mashed potatoes, and savory stuffing (along with a challenge from one of … Continue reading
What is an Enterprise Knowledge Graph and Why Do I Want One?
Enterprise Knowledge Graphs have been on the rise. We see them as an incredibly valuable tool for relating your structured and unstructured information and discovering facts about your organization. Yet, knowledge graphs have been and still are far too underutilized. … Continue reading
Choosing the Best Metadata Fields For Your Taxonomy
Introduction As a big music fan I am always on the hunt for new and better ways to organize my personal music library. Some days it makes the most sense for me to make a playlist for a specific activity, … Continue reading
Design Thinking for Organization Design
At EK, we are mindful that for any Knowledge and Information Management initiative to be effectively adopted within an organization we have to ask ourselves two questions: “who will have to do their jobs differently?” and “what new processes and … Continue reading
Applied Design Thinking
Regardless of whether you’re building an organization-wide intranet or designing a strategy to mature knowledge management within your organization, these efforts will succeed or fail based on how you engage your end users. Too often, KM efforts suffer from not … Continue reading
Taxonomy Lines Blur Without Governance
Taxonomies are constantly evolving and growing alongside the businesses they serve. Users are not static and neither are their processes or the content they create and consume. Ensuring that the taxonomy grows holistically means keeping the entire vocabulary in mind … 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
RACI+F: An Agile Tool for Taxonomy Maintenance
Keep It Simple for the Stakeholders, should be the guiding principle for taxonomy design and maintenance. Stakeholders know the business but don’t need to get bogged down with the intricacies of taxonomy design. A taxonomy governance plan, therefore, should be … Continue reading
The Business Analyst Role: Agile v. Waterfall
In this presentation, Yanko Ivanov and Tatiana Baquero Cakici share their experience regarding how the role of a Business Analyst (BA) changes in an agile environment when a software development team is trying to move from a traditional software development … Continue reading
How Agile Leaders Attract and Retain the Best Talent
In this blog for the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, Mary Little shares how the agile leadership at Enterprise Knowledge attracts and retains top talent in the industry. Continue reading