Taylor Paschal to Facilitate World IA Day 2024 Richmond

Taylor Paschal, a Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, is teaming up with Jenny Sassi to organize the upcoming World Information Architecture Day local event for Richmond, Virginia.  World Information Architecture (IA) Day, a global volunteer-run event, celebrates … Continue reading

How to Explain Ontologies to Any Audience

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can better explain complex, semantic concepts like ontologies, knowledge graphs, and data fabrics to others in an approachable, easy-to-understand manner. I’ve been in any number of situations where I’ve struggled to … Continue reading

Complement Your Change Management Efforts with Gamification

Despite being a relatively new concept in the KM field, gamification is already an overused term that gets thrown around in virtually any initiative. Defined as an organization’s use of design and insights from video games to increase participant engagement … Continue reading

The Art of Taxonomy Design

Throughout my years of taxonomy design consulting, I’ve tried to balance the human side of taxonomy with the data-driven side. This has evolved over time to inform the hybrid taxonomy design methodology that EK leverages. This approach leverages both top-down … Continue reading

Top 5 Agile Myths: Myth #4 Agile Only Works When People are Co-located

As I’ve written previously, it is exciting to see more and more organizations adopting Agile development processes, as Agile helps organizations speed time to market, lower project risk and improve relations between business and IT.  In my continuing efforts to … Continue reading

Top 5 Agile Myths: Myth #2 Agile Teams are Made Up of Only Developers

As I’ve written previously, it is exciting to see more and more organizations adopting Agile development processes.  Agile helps organizations speed time to market, lower project risk and improve relations between business and IT.  Unfortunately, there is still a lot … Continue reading