Information: Whose Job Is It?
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Information Whose Job Is It? 2000 Executive Decision Services LLC
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Whose job is it to identify organizational information needs and make the best use of the organization\'s data resources?
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Information
Whose Job Is It?
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Mission
Issues
Decisions
Information
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Giving more data to a decision maker …
© 2000 Kevin Kuhne
… is like throwing water on
a drowning
man.
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© 2000Kevin Kuhne
We have to engage inWe have to engage inanalysis and diagnosisanalysis and diagnosis‑‑ ‑‑ that is, in that is, in informationinformation -- --
or risk or risk being being
swamped swamped by the data by the data
we generate. we generate. 2000 Executive Decision Services LLC
© 2000Kevin Kuhne
Executives and professional specialistsneed to think through …
… what information is for them, what data they need …2000 Executive Decision Services LLC
Thinking seriously
about what
we need and what we don't need -- with the emphasi
s on what
we don't need -- 2000 Executive Decision Services LLC
… the more data, the more information …
… leads to data overload and information blackout …
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The ultimate "limits to growth" of knowledge
and wisdom are time … and the capacity of people ‑‑ individually and in groups ‑‑ to analyze and think integratively.
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The ultimate goal of Information Resources Management is to make each member of the organization an effective information processor and decision maker to support his or her duties and tasks and to make the organization as a whole a productive user of internal and external information resources to accomplish its mission.
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Five Questions1. What issues and problems will I face
over the next 3-5 years?
2. What decisions will I have to make?
3. What existing information, from my own unit and others, can I use to support these decisions?
4. What additional information will I need?
5. How will I be able to use this information to support my decision making?
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