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A knowledge management assessment is a simple audit of every knowledge-related component in your organization. This assessment discovers where there are gaps in your processes, team structure, or technology.

Your organization relies on great knowledge…and a competent individual who knows how to properly manage all the people, processes, and technology involved. Provide great knowledge, and employees spend less time searching for what they need—there’s no surprise knowledge is an ROI-positive...

You want to make knowledge valuable—in the hands of those who need it—but you need the right company culture to make knowledge an ROI-positive investment.  Whether it’s a how-to article a customer needs to solve their own problem or tips from your best salesperson before they retire,...

In their recent survey ” Workplace Habits & Hangups,” the workplace research company Glean found that the average employee spends two hours each day looking for the resources they need to do their actual job. That amounts to 25% of their entire workweek—a problem costing employers...

Are you graduating from a knowledge base or upgrading a legacy knowledge tool like SharePoint and looking to better understand knowledge management best practices? Today’s customer expects a better knowledge experience—one where answers they encounter are up-to-date, informative, and...

Knowledge is arguably your company’s most valuable resource—essential for success in today’s business environment of rapid development and continual change. So why use a knowledge base? One reason your organization should use a knowledge base is that it helps employees find valuable...

The collective knowledge of the people within your organization is one of your company’s biggest assets—it’s no wonder knowledge sharing is a key component of KCS methodology many knowledge managers adopt. If you can normalize knowledge sharing and feedback from both employees (and your...

Even in today’s modern economy, many businesses still rely heavily on documents and paperwork—from policies to contracts, to tax forms. For small businesses trying to organize all of these documents, document management systems can help. So what else can a DMS do? In this post, we’ll explain what...

If you work in an enterprise organization, eventually knowledge management must be taken seriously; more than a ‘nice-to-have’, or just another buzzword—enterprise knowledge management involves much more than a simple knowledge base or company intranet site. If we take a step back, knowledge...

Need an organized way for your company to capture, distribute, and effectively use knowledge? You need to design, implement, and maintain a knowledge management system. A knowledge management system is how the people, processes, and technology related to knowledge in your organization work...

Need a way to empower your customers and reduce support costs? A basic self service knowledge base is a good place to start. You can find many vendors that offer customer-facing knowledge bases—this is a category of standalone knowledge bases we refer to as ‘external-facing’ What to know before...

If you’ve worked at a small to mid-sized business (or even an established enterprise) in years past, you’ve probably used some form of an intranet to share internal knowledge. Microsoft’s SharePoint became the most well known, and while it was initially designed to help many teams stay on...