There's Much More to Information than Meets IT

 

 

 

Managing information about information ...   Information capabilities neither considered nor understood by conventional information technology allow us to manage information about information to manage all information about everything else.     One computer tool … an information engine … solves all information management once and for all.     Information capabilities and benefits are multiplied. Costs are slashed by well over half.

 

 

The biggest obstacle to solving information management is changing the conversation from talking about technology to talking about information and knowing the difference.

 

 

 

Information Lore

Information has always been seen through the distortion of a technology lens making it difficult not only to understand information but to understand what we don’t understand. Our knowledge of information is casual lore, not investigated learning.  Without a clear understanding of information, what it is, how it works, and how to get the most out of it, we have no legitimate criteria for what constitutes effective information management and what does not.  We literally don’t know if we’re doing a good job or a bad job managing information.

Understanding information unobstructed by technology clutter reveals
not only what we can do with information, but what we do
and don’t do because we don’t understand information.

 

 

What We Do and Don’t Do

Conventional systems provide specific procedures for specific results.  While providing benefits, specific case solutions also restrict our use of information, set a minimal standard for managing information, and cloud our understanding of information capabilities.  Intent on solving specific case problems we don’t notice that specific case solutions such as databases, accounting systems, and requirements definitions (and many more) severely limit information possibilities making it impossible to manage information to its full potential.  

 

Information technology perpetuates information
problems instead of solving them.

 

 

Solving Information Capabilities

Information rules and capabilities are the same regardless of specific cases.  (No system has ever required we invent a new way to use information.) Solving capabilities creates solutions without having to know specific case problems. Solving capabilities instead of cases is the basis for an information engine that has everything we can do with information already built-in eliminating the need to re-program each situation on a case by case basis.

 

 

Information management is solved, not by improving what we’ve been
doing, but by making what we’ve been doing unnecessary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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