Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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In Search of Knowledge
Information is proliferating--there is no question about that. The number of electronic documents that are being produced on a daily basis is growing exponentially. Additionally, the distribution of data location is becoming increasingly heterogeneous between data on the desktop, corporate data stores, the corporate Intranet and the public Internet.
While the likes of Google and Yahoo have certainly made finding information a whole lot easier on the public Internet, the whole notion of knowledge management from a corporate sense has continued to get more dysfunctional. Knowledge management in a nutshell is an easy concept to understand; there is information "out there," and based on what you are searching for you should be able to find the relevant information from any source that you have. Unfortunately, in most corporations, finding what you need is not nearly as easy as doing a Google search.
The lack of maturity around corporate knowledge management is not a new issue. We went through a stage a few years ago where knowledge management was hyped up but the buzz soon died down with a declining economy. Even though corporate profits may have been dormant for a few years, the creation of corporate information was not! With Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation, corporate documents, e-mails, websites have continued to proliferate with little regard for the corporate …
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