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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

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

Why Your Taxonomy Needs SKOS 

Taxonomies are a valuable tool for capturing semantic context, but their full value can only be realized when they’re represented in a standardized format. This infographic introduces SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) and demonstrates how your organization’s taxonomies can reach their full potential. Continue reading