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

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

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

Why KM Efforts Fail

In my career as a KM Consultant, I’ve often worked with organizations who have previously experienced failed KM initiatives and want to avoid repeating past mistakes. I’ve worked with an array of organizations spanning industries, size, and geography, yet the … 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

Knowledge Graphs as a Pillar to AI

This presentation from EK’s Yanko Ivanov and James Midkiff explores the framework that ontologies provide for enterprise knowledge graphs, shows how semantic layers complement traditional information models, and demonstrates how semantic knowledge models can be used as a basis for text … Continue reading