Artificial intelligence has officially crossed from buzzword to business imperative. Across the Fortune 1000, AI is reshaping how organizations manage knowledge, drive innovation, and make decisions with speed and confidence. Nowhere is this transformation more evident than in knowledge management (KM), where generative AI is reducing time-to-insight, boosting research reuse, and making strategic content instantly actionable.
Disconnected systems, duplicate research, and fragmented access to insights cost enterprises millions in lost productivity, delayed decisions, and missed opportunities. Traditional knowledge management platforms were built to store information—not to surface strategic insights or drive timely action. In today’s dynamic environment, storing knowledge isn’t...
The pharmaceutical industry faces a paradox: more data and opportunity than ever before, yet more pressure to innovate quickly, reduce costs, and beat the competition. In a heavily regulated, research-intensive environment, innovation is often slowed by inefficiencies, duplicate work, and siloed knowledge. The solution isn’t just more information; it’s...
A recent article by management consulting firm McKinsey* shines a spotlight on pharma technical development, also known as CMC (chemistry, manufacturing, and controls), whose purpose is to develop processes and methods for producing safe and effective medicines. According to McKinsey, CMC “has a rare opportunity to reimagine its role and find innovative...
BOSTON, MA , Oct. 18, 2022 – Northern Light ® ( www.northernlight.com ) today announced the addition of “expert communities” as a new feature in Northern Light SinglePoint ™ enterprise knowledge management portals for market and competitive intelligence. The new feature enables “subject matter experts” (SMEs) within the organization who have expertise...
If “knowledge is power,” as the adage says, then what is knowledge management (KM) to the nuclear power industry? Since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently published an 80+ page guide to knowledge management , it is fair to surmise that it’s extremely important. The IAEA defines knowledge management as “an integrated, systematic approach...
We were demonstrating Northern Light SinglePoint™ to a prospective client the other day; she is the Insights and Global Innovation Manager at an international food and agricultural products company. In evaluating market and competitive intelligence portal solutions, she described her mission as being to “free up and unlock” the company’s research assets,...
BOSTON, MA , Sept. 20, 2022 – Northern Light ® ( www.northernlight.com ) today announced Field Intelligence Analyst (FIA), a new add-on application for its SinglePoint ™ enterprise knowledge management portals used in market and competitive intelligence. FIA is a voice-driven app that conducts a structured interview with a sales or service representative...
Boston Consulting Group* (BCG) advocates that pharmaceutical companies open their eyes to the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the drug discovery process. The authors of a recent BCG article, “ Adopting AI in Drug Discovery ”, write: “[AI] technology can address many challenges and constraints in traditional [pharmaceutical] R&D. Each...
The concept of “knowledge management” (KM) has been around since the 1980s; it refers to the process of creating, storing, using, and sharing knowledge within an organization. KM is now well accepted as a vital business capability, because, as IBM puts it, “When knowledge is not easily accessible within an organization, it can be incredibly costly to a...
There’s an old saying: To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. A lot of organizations have Microsoft SharePoint as the knowledge management (KM) “hammer” in their toolkit – and many are wielding it inappropriately, doing considerable damage in the process. Don’t take our word for it. When industry research firm IDC* interviewed scores of companies...
Once upon a time, to use a search engine effectively, you had to know how to construct a Boolean search query. And back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many people did – not just corporate information managers and librarians, but rank-and-file professionals. Boolean (named for George Boole, a 19 th century English mathematician) lets you use special...
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