Cleaning Up Content Cobwebs

Every Knowledge Management (KM) effort should include cleaning up existing content, whether the goal is migrating to a new system, implementing a taxonomy or search tool, or just clearing the clutter of old, irrelevant content cobwebs. Regardless of your KM … 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

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