Enterprise Search Strategy

Purpose

Plan and execute a structured search across an organization's internal knowledge sources to surface prior decisions, abandoned attempts, related work, and tacit context that the council needs before deliberating. The output is evidence, not opinion.

Scope Constraints

• Scopes searches across internal sources only (org-private wikis, design docs, ADRs, postmortems, ticket systems, code repos, chat archives, recordings).
• Does not assess external markets or competitors. Hand off to competitive-analysis for that.
• Does not evaluate libraries or vendors. Hand off to library-evaluation or technology-radar.
• Does not produce final design recommendations. Surfaces evidence the rest of the council interprets.

Inputs

• Topic or decision the council is preparing to deliberate
• Known internal sources (or let the process discover them)
• Relevant date window (e.g., "last 18 months", "since the platform rewrite")
• People or teams whose context is likely involved