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The Benefits of KM for Contact Centers and Help Desks
In 1997, my parents graduated from college and began their professional careers at Charles Schwab, working in financial services as investment consultants. Though they had little experience, within two years, my parents were at the top of their department and … Continue reading
KM Strategy Workshop and Roadmap for a Global Product Testing Organization
The Challenge An industry-leading product testing organization was seeking the ability to quickly and efficiently gain an understanding of their knowledge management (KM) current state, and subsequently develop a foundational strategy to reach their desired state and a roadmap with … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Barry Byrne of Novartis
Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Barry Byrne, Global Head of Knowledge Management Strategy at Novartis, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. He joined Novartis from the Irish Defence Forces, where he led a multi-award winning Knowledge Management … Continue reading
Knowledge Capture and Transfer Series – Part 3: Capturing Explicit Knowledge
Even though explicit knowledge refers to knowledge that has already been captured and documented somewhere in the organization, this doesn’t mean that all organizations capture their explicit knowledge in locations or formats that are easy to use. Indeed, a lot … Continue reading
Three Pillars of Successful Data Catalog Adoption
Data catalogs function as a central library of information about content and data across an enterprise, making them a useful metadata management tool. They can aid organizations that struggle with poorly documented metadata, duplicated data work, and wasted time due … Continue reading
Why Your Data Fabric Needs an Enterprise Ontology
In today’s rapidly growing and evolving data environment, it is increasingly difficult for organizations to get maximal value from the full breadth of their data. As more data is produced faster by more sources, it is difficult for analysts, data … Continue reading
Knowledge Capture and Transfer Series – Part 2: Capturing Tacit Knowledge
Organizations often lack a disciplined way to leverage the learnings and experience that their staff have acquired throughout their tenure and past experiences, and they only pay attention to this issue once it becomes too big to ignore. Examples of … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Bryan Yee of Amgen
In this episode of Knowledge Cast, Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Bryan Yee, Director Of Knowledge Management at Amgen, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. Bryan has been at Amgen for over 16 years and has served … Continue reading
Content Management Strategy for an International Retailer
The Challenge The learning team for an international retailer struggled to find and discover the knowledge resources that supported their work and their online learning solutions. The retailer’s learning team used an abundance of manual templates and processes, along with … Continue reading
Breaking it down: What is a Taxonomy?
A few years ago, I did an activity at a leadership retreat where each person slowly whittled down a list of words to a single word that most represented them. The word that I ended up with was “simplicity,” and … Continue reading