Taxonomy Fast Track
By addressing how a holistically-designed taxonomy will benefit your users, and how taxonomies can and should be integrated into your environment, the Taxonomy Fast Track provides an organization-specific introduction to taxonomies that cannot be had through traditional general education.
Get a Jumpstart on Education & Recommendations
Not all organizations are the same - a Taxonomy Fast Track will provide both an educational element, helping leaders and decision makers understand what a taxonomy is, and how it can benefit the organization, as well as a level of customization to your specific business needs.
By understanding how to employ organizing principles, a consistent language, and a disciplined content management process, a properly implemented taxonomy and metadata model will increase the findability of your valuable information assets.
Closing the Knowledge Gap
Taxonomies present an interesting challenge to many organizations - in some sense, many organizations know that they need one, or at least think they do, but they don’t really know what that means. A Taxonomy Fast Track engagement addresses exactly this knowledge gap:
- What is a taxonomy, and how can one be used by our organization?
- How will implementing a taxonomy add value to our website and for our users?
- What are thesauri and controlled vocabularies, and why should I care about these?
- If our organization chooses to pursue a taxonomy program, what will it take?
Steps in the Taxonomy Fast Track - click to enlarge
Laying a Foundation for Execution
Earley & Associates will provide your organization with an introduction to taxonomies and a clear picture of how to move from where you are now to a robust taxonomy implementation. This Rapid Results Series engagement is customized with the details of:
- Your business processes
- Your IT infrastructure
- Your content management processes
Understanding how to employ organizing principles, a consistent language, and a disciplined content management process will help you increase the findability of your valuable information assets.
Uncovering the business benefits of taxonomy
- Over 25% of managers’ time is typically spent looking for information, while 50% of the information they find is of little or no use to them
And that’s only the internal enterprise side of the challenge. A Taxonomy Fast Track will quickly and effectively:
- Provide customized education about taxonomy and related concepts for key stakeholders
- Identify capabilities and gaps within the current organization, both technically and operationally
- Lay out the steps to success through a detailed recommendations report to enable effective decision-making
