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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
Navigating System Limitations for Taxonomy Implementation
When navigating the transition from designing a taxonomy to implementing it in the intended systems, it can be common to encounter a gap between ideal implementation (hierarchical tagging without system-imposed limits, controlled by tight role-based user permissions), and reality. Continue reading
Semantic Layer Maturity Framework Series: Taxonomy
Taxonomy is foundational to the Semantic Layer. A taxonomy establishes the essential semantic building blocks upon which everything else is built, starting by standardizing naming conventions and ensuring consistent terminology. From there, taxonomy concepts are enriched with additional context, such … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Sierra Woods at Canadian Heritage
Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Sierra Woods, Public Servant in the Canadian Government. In this conversation, Zach and Sierra discuss how to facilitate and “design” KM conversations to ask the right questions and reach the “a-ha” moment, developing … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Gianni Giacomelli at MIT
Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Gianni Giacomelli, Head of Design Innovation for the Collective Intelligence Design Lab at MIT and founder of Supermind.Design. In this conversation, Zach and Gianni discuss how KM goes beyond simple document management or … Continue reading
The Role of Taxonomy in Labeled Property Graphs (LPGs) & Graph Analytics
Taxonomies play a critical role in deriving meaningful insights from data by providing structured classifications that help organize complex information. While their use is well-established in frameworks like the Resource Description Framework (RDF), their integration with Labeled Property Graphs (LPGs) … Continue reading
How to Implement a Semantic Layer: A Proven Operating Model
As organizations invest in enterprise AI and knowledge intelligence, the semantic layer serves as a critical foundation for providing a consistent, contextual framework that connects data assets across multiple sources to enable shared understanding, interoperability, and more intelligent use of … Continue reading
Knowledge Portals: Manifesting A Single View Of Truth For Your Organization
Guillermo Galdamez, Principal Knowledge Management Consultant, and Benjamin Cross, Project Manager, presented “Knowledge Portals: Manifesting A Single View Of Truth For Your Organization” at the APQC 2025 Process & Knowledge Management Conference on April 9th, 2025. Galdamez and Cross delivered … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Barry Byrne at Novartis (pt. 2)
Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl again speaks with Barry Byrne, Global Head of Knowledge Management at Novartis and founder and organizer of the Knowledge Summit Dublin conference. In this conversation, Zach and Barry discuss Barry’s growing knowledge management team at … Continue reading
Top Semantic Layer Use Cases and Applications (with Real World Case Studies)
Today, most enterprises are managing multiple content and data systems or repositories, often with overlapping capabilities such as content authoring, document management, or data management (typically averaging three or more). This leads to fragmentation and data silos, creating significant inefficiencies. … Continue reading