Despite what we tell ourselves ...
... Information
Technology
has always been
poor information management.
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Preoccupied by how technology works the IT industry pays little attention to how information works and doesn't know it, assuming without question ... or evidence ... that standard practice IT is good information management. It is not!
We feel the pain but don't easily see the cause because success is measured by how we use technology, not by how we use information (like judging a house by how we use a saw instead of by how we use lumber)
Conventional IT is, in effect, upside down, force-fitting information to how technology works instead of fitting technology to how information works.
Turning information management right side up ...
...making technology fit how
information works instead
of
force-fitting information to how technology works ...
... multiplies information capabilities while cutting
information
management
costs
by well over half.
Looking at information management by how information
works instead
of by how computers work.
What the IT industry has never understood 
Most of what most IT people think and talk about is informationally incomplete, irrelevant, or destructive.
Mind-stuck in techno-think and substantially untrained in how information works we don't notice that the following IT traditions limit, diminish, destroy, and/or ignore information possibilities, keeping us trapped in perpetual information failure.
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What we could and should (but don't) accomplish with information. |
When information is more important than technology
Planning solutions by how information works instead of by how technology works vastly improves how we use both, slashing costs by well over half. |
There are huge differences between managing information, managing data, and managing computers. Knowing one does not mean we know the others.
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The difference in systems is not in what we do with information, but in how many of which functions are needed to inform a particular situation. (Just as all houses are functionally identical with differences being how many of which functional components ... doors, windows, walls, etc. ... are included.) Conventional IT focuses on technical procedures without identifying or understanding information functions. |
Planning Change:
| Conventional systems are designed to handle changes in data. A true information management system handles changes of ... | |||
... without having to update, recreate, or change a system, (Just because technology changes, for example, doesn't mean information usages and needs change.) |
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Replacing information intuition
with conscious understanding.
Information Topography
How information naturally fits and reflects the real world (as distinct from how it fits computers, databases, or legacy pencil and paper solutions). What we need to know about to know about something.
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Information Mechanics
The natural laws ... the "physics" ... of information.
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| "Paths" followed through informational dimensions to derive secondary information from primary and collateral information | ||||||||
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Information Correlation:
| Correlations are determined by how information fits within contexts and sub-contexts | ||||
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Supercession:
| In the artificial world of conventional "information" systems "old" data is replaced with "current" data, to create a contrived representation of "now." In the real world new information does not replace but supercedes old, allowing us to know what is, what was, and, in some cases, what will be all at the same time. (Just because information is no longer current does not mean it is no longer information.) |
Delta Computation:
| In many circumstances when variables change proper computation is not just the calculation of a formula, but is the difference between the current result and the result the last time it was calculated. |
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Planning information and planning technology require
different knowledge, skills,
and perspectives.
Information Cartography
Mapping the information content ... the information topography ... of a business so information can be used for any purpose instead of locking it down to the limited procedures and usage of legacy systems. Keeping a system current simply means keeping the map current. |
Information Engine
An information intelligent tool ... a vehicle ... that has everything we can do with information already built in allowing for the implementation, maintenance, and evolution of complex information systems with no software development ... without having to re-engineer the vehicle just because the information terrain and map change. |
For More (and better) Information Contact:
Dick FromInformationalist
inquiry@id2100.com
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