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Trimming an Untamed Taxonomy
When your taxonomy has overgrown your path towards usability, it’s time to do some gardening. Congratulations: you have a taxonomy! You’ve gone through the work of gathering user feedback, developing a design, validating the design, and you’ve come out the … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast Product Spotlight – Andreas Blumauer of Semantic Web Company
In this episode of Product Spotlight, EK COO Joe Hilger speaks with Andreas Blumauer of Semantic Web Company. Andreas has been CEO and managing partner of Semantic Web Company (SWC) for more than 15 years. At SWC, he is responsible … Continue reading
Designing Your Taxonomy to Fit Your Use Case: Common Taxonomy Use Cases (Part 1)
At EK, we’ve designed countless taxonomies for our clients over the years. These taxonomies are reflective of each individual client’s content and needs, and provide direct business value. One of the keys to our success is that before we even … Continue reading
How Do I Implement A Taxonomy?
Congrats, you have a taxonomy! It is a strategic milestone for many organizations whether the taxonomy is instantiated in a taxonomy management system of some type, or, as we much more commonly see, stored in a spreadsheet. Regardless, your next … Continue reading
System Migration and Enterprise Search Design Powered by Enterprise Taxonomy, Automated Tagging, and Content Governance
The Challenge Staff at a US-based investment and insurance company were spending extraneous amounts of time finding information through the organization’s search experience. Users had been instructed to interact with search in specific ways (which filters to use, how to … Continue reading
Improved Customer Service and Risk Management through KM
The Challenge At over 30,000 employees, this diverse insurance organization has business areas that widely vary in information maturity, some actively leveraging taxonomies while others used basic/unorganized tagging systems or simple folder structures. Even business areas with mature taxonomies were … Continue reading
Employee 360 Views: Common Use Cases
In an earlier blog, I discussed what Employee 360 Views are and which possible sources of information can feed them. In this blog, I describe why Employee 360 Views are important from various end users’ perspectives, what employee information they … Continue reading
Employee 360 Views: What are they?
Leaders from every organization need accurate and up-to-date information about their employees to support key corporate decisions, enhance business profitability, and remain competitive in today’s world. One of the best ways to better understand your employees is through an Employee … Continue reading
Integrated Change Management Plan for Top Telecommunications Company
The Challenge Their Challenge: One of the top telecommunication companies in the world is pursuing an ambitious corporate strategy that entails a digital transformation of its entire operations, expanding its service offerings, and exploiting new business opportunities to become a … Continue reading
Taxonomy Implementation Best Practices
Have you ever found yourself wondering how to implement a taxonomy you’ve just designed or updated? You might have asked yourself, “How do I make this taxonomy work in SharePoint? In Salesforce? Oracle Knowledge Advanced?” You are not alone. Many … Continue reading