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Meetup: Knowledge Management Community of DC (September 2018)
On Thursday, September 27, 2018, the Knowledge Management Community of DC Meetup will host its monthly event at Enterprise Knowledge. In this session, presenter John Hovell will guide participants in an interactive discussion around conversational leadership and how to practice … 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
KM Leadership Team Design: Building Your Tribes
What’s the likelihood that KM solutions “stick” without a KM leadership team? Pretty slim. When you take the time to develop leaders who understand the value of knowledge management and are empowered to be creative and try new ways to … 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
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
How to Create a Content Type
In earlier blogs from this series, we described in simple terms what a content type means through a sweet analogy with cakes (see “What is a Content Type?”) and talked about the benefits of creating a content type (see “Three … Continue reading
The Two Second Page Load
When managing websites or performing an analysis on a website, as important as it is to know where your visitors are coming from, what pages they are viewing, and other aspects of interaction; it is equally important to know how … 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
MeetUp: Black Code Collective (August 2018) – World of Open Source
On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, the Black Code Collective Meetup will host its monthly event at Enterprise Knowledge. In this session, Vince Sam shares his journey on how he landed a prestigious position at Mapbox and the ways open source has helped him develop, improve, and grow over his 12 years in the world of computer programming Continue reading