Why AI Projects Fail Without a Common Language: The Case for Taxonomy Standards
As organizations rush to adopt AI solutions and technologies, the necessary structures to support such solutions are often overlooked. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 63% of organizations will not have the right data management practices for AI. This gap shows … Continue reading
A Practical Guide to a Taxonomy Remodel
For anyone who has undertaken any form of home remodel or loves to watch television shows featuring them, the general phases of a home renovation are familiar: visualizing the target state of the remodeled home, carrying out structural work, demolition, … Continue reading
The Semantic Exchange Webinar: Taxonomies vs Ontologies For AI-Readiness
Join Enterprise Knowledge for another episode of The Semantic Exchange, a fast-paced webinar series designed for direct Q&A with our Semantic Design thought leaders. This 30-minute session invites you to engage on the topic of Kathleen Gollner’s recent blog, Taxonomies … Continue reading
The Semantic Exchange Webinar: Taxonomies in the Age of AI
Join Enterprise Knowledge for another episode of The Semantic Exchange, a fast-paced webinar series designed for direct Q&A with our Semantic Design thought leaders. This 30-minute session invites you to engage with Bonnie Griffin’s blog, Taxonomies in the Age of … Continue reading
Taxonomies in the Age of AI: Evolving Your Strategy
The Topic Taxonomy: An Outdated Artifact? As knowledge workers continue to navigate constantly evolving priorities in developing effective AI solutions that complement organizational priorities, semantics have maintained their value—but not without shifts that deserve our attention. Broadly speaking, one reliable … Continue reading
Leveraging a Semantic Layer for Research Curation and Conversational Experiences
The Challenge A global philanthropic organization focused on health programs struggled to fully leverage knowledge from semi-structured and unstructured documents. Specifically, within a health-related funding program, researchers lacked access to key qualitative data from end-user surveys and transcripts. Consequently, they … Continue reading
Taxonomy Alignment for SDG Tagging
In the session “Utilizing Taxonomies to Meet UN SDG Obligations“ co-presented at KMWorld 2025 on November 17th, Enterprise Knowledge’s Ben Kass and ASHA’s Mike Cannon discuss how they structured taxonomies within an ongoing auto-tagging implementation to serve content management and … Continue reading
The Role of Product Taxonomies in the Age of AI
Product Taxonomies are Your Intellectual Property; Why they Deserve More than AI Slop “Good design is invisible,” a principle that applies as much to digital taxonomy design as it does to the design of physical objects and spaces. At their … Continue reading
A Healthier Knowledge Platform: Taxonomy Principles to Support Knowledge Management at a Not-for-Profit
Would your organization benefit from “healthier” knowledge management practices? Learn more about how the YMCA of the USA improved the health of key internal tools. During their presentation, “Taxonomy Principles to Support Knowledge Management at a Not-for-Profit” at KMWorld’s Taxonomy … Continue reading
How to Design Taxonomies that Reflect Organizational Differences, For Humans and AI
One of the key steps to prepare your content and data for AI is developing taxonomies that identify, organize, and define the terms used in the organization in order to better structure and contextualize knowledge assets for use in AI … Continue reading