January/February 2025 [Volume 34, Issue 1]

Features

Avoiding Legal Pitfalls Through Savvy Data Governance

Data governance solutions can scan and classify organizations' sensitive data according to its relevance to a particular regulation. Classifiers find specific data types of interest to specific regulatory entities.

Tips and Techniques to Close Knowledge Gaps

Knowledge gaps are a moving target, and companies must institute continuous improvement procedures to keep up. Numerous avenues exist for detecting knowledge gaps, including employee assessments and technology-derived metrics. Remedies include training and, increasingly, deploying AI solutions to seek out new information. Organizations will need to proactively monitor these gaps and use the available tools to close them in order to stay competitive.

KMWorld Conference Wrap-Up and Look Ahead

Evident in all the tracks and conferences was the trend toward recognizing the foundational value of KM to enterprises large and small, nonprofit and for profit. Without seamless access to knowledge—access that stretches across data silos and transcends formats—enterprises cannot please customers and employees as they would like. AI-based technologies contribute to elevating the value of KM, but they are not the only driving force.

ViewPoints

KM 101 in the Era of AI: An Interview With Stan Garfield

One of the things KM can do for AI is to empower learning communities to help people how AI applies to them and how to navigate through changes generated by it.

Navigating the IT Landscape: Balancing Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Repatriation to Stay in Control of Your Infrastructure

To secure their data, certain industries have strict regulations regarding data storage, requiring data to be kept in specific geographic locations or under stringent security measures. This is yet another reason for organizations nowadays to switch back to on-prem resources.

KM in Practice

eGain Customers Share Their Experiences at the KMWorld Conference

eGain was an enormous help in the digital transformation efforts and the challenges their clients faced when dealing with legacy systems.

Stravito helps Delta democratize insights and supercharge its research potential

The Stravito enterprise insights platform has enabled Delta to democratize its insights and maximize its research potential, improving the flying experience for customers and employees alike

Verint announces top telecommunications company realized $10.5M annual savings from Verint’s AI-Powered Voice Self-Service

The company replaced their old telephony-driven IVR technology with Verint AI-powered IVA to deliver tangible business outcomes

David Weinberger

What’s Obvious Tells Many a Lie

Settled knowledge is, in essence, a strategic use of shortcuts, which is an excellent strategy given our limited time and capacities.

The Future of the Future

252 Million Walas

There are 195 countries in the world. How many more entrepreneurial innovation hotspots are out there, waiting to be tapped and awakened? In our high-tech, virtual world, all of the steps Pakistan has taken can be replicated virtually anywhere, regardless of your country's size, GDP, or location. Imagine the possibilities ...

Ethical Innovation

The Long- and Short-Term Impacts of AI Technologies

A much less-known but arguably more critical tech law is Amara's Law, which states that we tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technology while underestimating its long-term effects.