If you want to avoid wasted time, effort, and cost acquiring information to support decision making:
Identify what decision are you trying to support. Define what you are attempting to measure in observable consequences. Work out exactly how this thing being measured impacts on the decision. Identify what you already know now, with [...]
Strategies for the Second Half of The Information Age
Our current economic mess is not as unique it appears. It is part of a cycle of great surges that socio-economists have identified when techno-economic innovation occurs. These theories first emerged in 1925 in Nikolai Kondratiev’s work on Major Economic Cycles. He never got [...]
We do a lot of Information Architecture (IA) in i-logue. It is one of our core skills and we believe the IA approach is fundamental to a great many information management situations. We also believe that it is a subject frequently ignored on many programmes and projects.
I was therefore delighted when
Finding Help When You Need It Most
Having a particular interest in Information Retrieval and more broadly in Information Management I have for some time been interested in how information is managed in crisis or disaster situations. These are information management situations “on the edge” where, in the extreme, getting it right can save lives. [...]
I have become increasingly aware of social media tools recently and as result have been investigating some of the capabilities that are starting to appear to help analyse social trends. In this post I will take a look as some of the more interesting offerings I have discovered in my journey to social media awareness.
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It technology terms Information Retrieval (IR) is still at the “toddler” stage of development. However, rapid progress is starting to be made and there are many innovative and exciting IR techniques and tools emerging to help us tackle the information overload. These new approaches are not just to be found in the large, complex corporate [...]
- or “The Sentient Enterprise”, as it prefers to be known.
We are once again going through one of those periods where developments in the consumer space are outstripping progress in the enterprise. This last happened with WiFi. Network architecture and security constraints inhibited the spread of wireless capabilities within enterprises and arguably still do. [...]
