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The Business Value of Taxonomy

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Jim Downey — 2 Comments

Sitting around a conference table, listening to folks from different departments discuss a business process, it often strikes me how important a role words play. So apparently simple, yet so rich and deep, words frame our thoughts in ways more…

Taxonomy Everywhere

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Jim Downey — Leave a comment

I’ve been reading a couple of good books on taxonomy: Darin L. Stewart’s Building Enterprise Taxonomies and Patrick Lambe’s Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness. Stewart’s book is a good introduction. Lambe’s delves deeply into the topic and has…