Findability
Using Facets to Find Unstructured Content
What does ‘faceted navigation’ mean to you? For web-savvy individuals, it’s a search experience similar to that which you would find on Amazon. Facets primarily allow an individual to quickly sort through large amounts of information to locate a single … Continue reading »
What is the Roadmap to Enterprise AI?
Artificial Intelligence technologies allow organizations to streamline processes, optimize logistics, drive engagement, and enhance predictability as the organizations themselves become more agile, experimental, and adaptable. To demystify the process of incorporating AI capabilities into your own enterprise, we broke it … Continue reading »
The Value of Taxonomy: Why Taxonomy (Still) Matters
After decades of taxonomy design consulting, I’m still amazed that some organizations doubt the value of effective enterprise taxonomy design. Though knowledge and information management technologies, as well as associated search technologies have changed, the core business value and use … Continue reading »
Optimizing Your Search Experience: A Human-Centered Approach to Search Design
Designing a search solution requires an understanding of how people think, what they want, and how they go about getting what they want. You can implement the most technically sophisticated search tool for your organization, but if you’re not configuring … Continue reading »
Knowledge Graphs for Search and Discovery
For many projects at Enterprise Knowledge, making information more findable and discoverable is a common ask. Clients often ask questions like: Does my organization have any documents that detail the role of product owners on search projects? Have we previously … Continue reading »
Beyond Findability
For most of my career, one of my favorite “made up” words has been findability. It is the perfect term to explain the “why” of taxonomy, search, and, in many cases, Knowledge Management in general. When I talk findability, I … Continue reading »
What is Knowledge Management and Why Is It Important
As I’ve often asserted, Knowledge Management struggles with its own identity. There are any number of definitions of KM, many of which put too much stress on the tacit knowledge side of the knowledge and information management spectrum, are overly … Continue reading »
EK Speaking at KMI Showcase
Enterprise Knowledge team members Zach Wahl, Joe Hilger, Claire Brawdy, Yanko Ivanov, and Chris Marino will all be speaking at the upcoming KM Showcase, presented by the Knowledge Management Institute. The KM Showcase is a one-day conference focused exclusively on … Continue reading »
Defining Knowledge Management Strategy, Part 3 of 3
In the final part of his three-part series on defining knowledge management strategies, Zach Wahl describes several factors that resonate with organizations when understanding the value of knowledge management, as well as several keys to effective knowledge management strategies.
Findability v. Discoverability
At first glance, the terms “findability” and “discoverability” may seem similar, if not the same. However, these terms are distinct, and both are key outcomes that should be considered in any comprehensive Knowledge Management (KM) strategy. In this blog, you’ll … Continue reading »