There's Much More to Information than Meets IT

 

 

 

Managing information about information, manages all information about everything else.

 

 

 

A Self-Defeating Legacy

 

Preoccupied by how technology works the IT industry pays too 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.     Most of what most IT people think and talk about is informationally incomplete, irrelevant, or destructive.   It is impossible, for example, to manage information to its full potential with databases!    Databases automate pencil and paper concepts and their limitations, severely restricting information possibilities and potential.    Mind-stuck in techno-think and substantially unaware of how information works we don't notice that IT traditions limit, diminish, destroy, and/or ignore information possibilities ...   ... we don't notice that a great job using a data base does not translate as a great job using information.

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).

Technology clutter thoroughly confuses information possibilities, escalating costs and defeating the potential of  information and information management.

 

Rethinking Information
Systems and Technology

 

 

Thinking "information" instead of "technology" (and knowing the difference) reveals information about information ... what it is and how it works ... never considered, exploited, or solved by conventional IT.

 

 

By understanding and then managing information about information, information intelligent tools (information engines) solve ALL information usages for all situations once and for all:

 

 

	•	Providing information solutions without having to know specific case information problems.
	•	Eliminating the need to develop and re-develop software just because we come across new situations, new information, or because we want to use old information differently.
	•	Replacing special purpose systems (accounting, payroll, CRM, ERP, etc.) that solve information usages on a case by case basis but that also make other usages of the same information impossible (solving some but precluding other information usages is the intrinsic nature of conventional systems).

 

 

Information management costs are cut by well over half.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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