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Content Management Strategy for a Capital Producer
A capital producer understood the complexity of navigating international regulatory environments. Operating across nations in numerous fields of specialization, the organization had to uphold diverse and disparate ordinances, many of which have changed over time. Dedicated to providing high-quality services to their customers, the organization sought a solution that would help them better navigate revisions to compliance requirements and ensure adherence to rigorous standards of excellence. Continue reading
Maturing Data Processes at a Decentralized Federal Organization
A large government agency sought EK’s help in addressing significant data management challenges they were facing. The agency had a decentralized organizational structure and a complex technical ecosystem, which created unique challenges for remote employees in finding, accessing, and sharing critical data at the time of need. These challenges resulted … Continue reading
How Sustainability Grows from KM
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to businesses’ fiscal outcomes. Sustainability is the practice of enhancing environmentally-friendly practices in an organization, such as by reducing energy consumption or water usage. Today’s consumers value sustainability as a core principle when making purchasing … Continue reading
A Practical Guide To Knowledge Transfer Interviews
Organizations often wait too long to target and capture the lessons learned and takeaways gained from senior leaders’ experience and tenure. As a result, when senior executives leave or retire, key nuggets of institutional knowledge often leave with them. Knowledge … Continue reading
Establishing a Scalable Knowledge Management Strategy and Solution Framework for a Leading Automotive Manufacturing Company: A Case Study
One of the top global leaders in automotive manufacturing faced significant challenges in managing and accessing critical knowledge across its diverse teams. The company engaged Enterprise Knowledge (EK) to conduct a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy and solution implementation project plan after the failure of multiple KM initiatives. The engagement’s long-term goal is to establish a shared Knowledge Management System (KMS) to streamline access to crucial information, better leverage experts’ institutional knowledge and experience, and decrease new employees’ time to proficiency. Continue reading
What is a Knowledge Asset?
Over the course of Enterprise Knowledge’s history, we have been in the business of connecting an organization’s information and data, ensuring it is findable and discoverable, and enriching it to be more useful to both humans and AI. Though use … Continue reading
Honda Honors Enterprise Knowledge for Outstanding Performance
Honda honored Enterprise Knowledge (EK) for outstanding performance during the past year. Honda recognized a total of only 33 suppliers that provide indirect products and services to Honda manufacturing plants and business operations across North America. The awards were announced … Continue reading
Harnessing Institutional Knowledge to Enhance Employee Learning
Institutional knowledge loss erodes an organization’s effectiveness by neglecting critical collective wisdom and work previously produced by others. It is a challenge that is cumulative in its effect. The more time that goes by where an organization fails to protect … Continue reading
Leveraging Institutional Knowledge to Enable Innovation
In Greek mythology, the character Sysiphus is condemned to spend eternity pushing a boulder up a hill, only for the boulder to roll back down as soon as he nears the top. When organizations lack capability to manage and preserve … Continue reading
Using Knowledge Management to Minimize the Costs of Departing Leaders
Institutional knowledge loss can take many forms, but one of its most common instances occurs when long-standing leaders and experts decide to step down and leave the organization. Departures arise as individuals look for new opportunities, retire, or as a … Continue reading