How to Distinguish Between Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Metadata Fields
When designing an enterprise taxonomy, the number of possible metadata fields that can be used to describe content can be overwhelming. Depending on the type of content, the size of the organization, and the breadth of that organization’s functions, the … Continue reading
Leveraging KM as the Foundation for Artificial Intelligence
This presentation by EK’s Zach Wahl, originally presented at the annual Federal/DoD KM Symposium on May 15, 2019, discusses how knowledge management serves as a key foundation for Knowledge AI.
The Importance of Content Governance, Part I: Enhancing Content Governance By Involving the Right People
Content Governance is more than just rule-making. It is about coordinating efforts, creating opportunities, being responsive to the surroundings, acting decisively, and moving your team towards a common objective. When we talk about Governance this way, it sounds a lot … Continue reading
The Importance of Content Governance, An Introduction
A great content strategy will deliver great content, or as our Principal, Zach Wahl, would call it, “NERDy content.” However, even the best content requires the proper level of care and attention in order to remain great. Governance provides support … Continue reading
Using Knowledge Graph Data Models to Solve Real Business Problems
A successful business today must possess the capacity to quickly glean valuable insights from massive amounts of data and information coming from diverse sources. The scale and speed at which companies are generating data and information, however, often makes this … Continue reading
Increase the Re-Use of Knowledge Assets with Semantic Hubs
In my last blog, I discussed how knowledge graphs aggregate information from multiple systems to enable powerful search and discovery tools. A semantic hub (or semantic middleware) is a metadata-enhanced bridge that connects a knowledge graph to user-facing applications, helping … Continue reading
Developing Good KM Habits to Make KM Stick
Clients often ask me how to make Knowledge Management (KM) a seamless part of their workforce’s day-to-day operations. They want to know how to shift people’s perceptions from KM as “another thing I have to do in addition to my … Continue reading
Lulit Tesfaye Speaking at the Community Transportation Expo 2019
Enterprise Knowledge’s (EK) Lulit Tesfaye, Practice Lead for Data and Information Management, is presenting at this year’s Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) Expo 2019, to be held from May 18 – 23rd in Palm Springs, California. The Expo is … Continue reading
EK Speaking at DoD and Federal Knowledge Management Symposium 2019
EK’s Zach Wahl, CEO, and Joe Hilger, COO, are both presenting at this year’s DoD and Federal Knowledge Management Symposium 2019 from May 14 – 16th in Baltimore, Maryland. The annual conference is co-located with AFCEA TechNet at the Baltimore … Continue reading
The Cost of Doing Nothing with Knowledge Management
Presented at KM Showcase 2019 by EK’s Lulit Tesfaye, this presentation covers the business case for knowledge and information management. Further, it offers business cases and discussions of hard Return on Investment (ROI) for KM efforts.