Not Dead!

Store

• How to figure out if you store too much or too little in your organization 
• How we can implement quick capture for your tools 
• Teaching your team the value of highlighting from source material. 
• How to create a simple ledger that scales with your business. 

Search

• What are the differences between full-text search and semantic search? 
• What does it mean to have a relevance metric? 
• Being really specific about why you can't find things and which expectations aren't being met by current search tools. 

Synthesis

• How can your team use what's already been stored to create new value for the organization? 
• What does it mean to leave a good comment? And how do comments help us build out key communication for our work? 
• How can different teams working on the same project apply non-destructive value to the project through commentary? 

Share

• What communication bottlenecks exist in your organization? 
• What data is shared redundantly or repetitively? 
• Is information being shared with the wrong teams at the wrong time? How does the right information find the right people?

brief survey:

1. on a scale from minimalist to hoarder, how much information does your organization capture?

2. What percentage of your searches fail to meet expectations?

3. what percentage of projects lack the resources to get off the ground? 

4. How much effort does it take from ideation to launch?

5. How often do your team members repeat themselves in different share channels?

6. does your average team member feel dignity over the data in their work?

7. What tool knows the most about your company? notion, trello, github, google workspace, etc

8. what was the last new info technology you added company wide? what did you hope it would solve? did it work?

9. which of these is most frustrating on a day to day basis: store, search, synthesis, sharing? which is least frustrating?

1. one year from now, what would you hope for your company’s relationship with your information?