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Knowledge Cast – Liam Fahey at Leadership Forum
Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Liam Fahey, Partner and Co-Founder at Leadership Forum LLC. In this conversation, Zach and Liam discuss Liam’s claim to fame as co-host of the first Knowledge Management conference in 1994, the importance of … Continue reading
Harnessing Institutional Knowledge to Enhance Employee Learning
Institutional knowledge loss erodes an organization’s effectiveness by neglecting critical collective wisdom and work previously produced by others. It is a challenge that is cumulative in its effect. The more time that goes by where an organization fails to protect … Continue reading
Leveraging Institutional Knowledge to Enable Innovation
In Greek mythology, the character Sysiphus is condemned to spend eternity pushing a boulder up a hill, only for the boulder to roll back down as soon as he nears the top. When organizations lack capability to manage and preserve … Continue reading
Using Knowledge Management to Minimize the Costs of Departing Leaders
Institutional knowledge loss can take many forms, but one of its most common instances occurs when long-standing leaders and experts decide to step down and leave the organization. Departures arise as individuals look for new opportunities, retire, or as a … Continue reading
Why Your Taxonomy Needs SKOS
Taxonomies are a valuable tool for capturing semantic context, but their full value can only be realized when they’re represented in a standardized format. This infographic introduces SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) and demonstrates how your organization’s taxonomies can reach their full potential. Continue reading
Cutting Through the Noise: An Introduction to RDF & LPG Graphs
Graph is good. From capturing business understanding to support standardization and data analytics to informing more accurate LLM results through Graph-RAG, knowledge graphs are an important component of how modern businesses translate data and content into actionable knowledge and information. … Continue reading
Fostering a Knowledge-Sharing Mindset: How to Get People to Share What They Know
Knowledge is one of an organization’s most valuable assets, but it’s only useful when shared. Organizations become more innovative, efficient, and resilient when employees actively exchange insights, best practices, and lessons learned. However, knowledge sharing doesn’t always happen naturally—it requires the right culture, incentives, and support. Continue reading
Humanitarian Foundation – SemanticRAG POC
A humanitarian foundation needed to demonstrate the ability of its Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GRAG) system to answer complex, cross-source questions. In particular, the task was to evaluate the impact of foundation investments on strategic goals by synthesizing information from publicly available domain data, internal investment documents, and internal investment data. The challenge laid in …. Continue reading
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Inject Business Context into Structured Data using a Semantic Layer (Part 3)
Introduction AI has attracted significant attention in recent years, prompting me to explore enterprise AI architectures through a multi-part blog series this year. Part 1 of this series introduced the key technical components required for implementing an enterprise AI architecture. … Continue reading
What is Semantics and Why Does it Matter?
This white paper will unpack what semantics is, and walk through the benefits of a semantic approach to your organization’s data across search, usability, and standardization. As a knowledge and information management consultancy, EK works closely with clients to help … Continue reading