The four quadrants
A Business Enterprise is an aspiration, initially pursued by its founders and subsequently sustained by the passion of rank and file through generations of management and employees.
What helps a business to retain its initial inspiration and sustain it through the passion of its employees is the ability to relate day-to-day activities to a set of well-managed and principles-guided “knowledge” methods & tools
Component: Data Products
The Data Products Working Group was set up to work on a Data Products specification (DPROD). This is to be submitted via the Object Management Group to become a new international standard. The DPROD WG meets every Friday.
Accordingly, the EKGF framework for “knowledge-empowered” business excellence can be seen as a set of four mutually reinforcing quadrants:
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Principles - articulating the key shared beliefs around knowledge empowerment across the enterprise and its ecosystem
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Method - articulating the key processes around adopting, embedding, and managing knowledge through graphs into enterprise SOPs
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Capability Components - articulating the key units of “knowledge-enabled” work organization and collaboration
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Maturity - articulating level of excellence in the practices of knowledge enablement and empowerment throughout the enterprise
Making the Case for EKGF
The Enterprise Knowledge Graph Forum was established to define best practices and mature the marketplace for EKG adoption including: