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- There's Much More to Information than Meets I.T.
- Managing information about information manages all information about everything else.
- Turning Information Management Right Side Up
- What the IT Industry Has Never Understood
- What the IT Industry Has Never Understood
- Where I.T. goes wrong.
- A False Discipline
- A False Discipline
- What we don't understand because we don't understand information.
- The I.T. Penalty.
- The I.T. Penalty.
- The costs and consequences of not understanding information.
- Accounting Systems
- Accounting Systems
- Legacy concepts that are based on and still assume we're using quill pen and ruled ledgers.
- CRM, ERP, SAP
- CRM, ERP, SAP
- Partial solutions that obstruct whole solutions.
- Databases & Spreadsheets
- Databases & Spreadsheets
- Automating pencil and paper instead of information.
- Word Processing
- Word Processing
- Making it pretty but not informative.
- Operating Systems
- Operating Systems
- Making how technology works more important than how information works.
- Enterprise Modeling
- Enterprise Modeling
- Expediting the problem.
- Information Architecture
- Information Architecture
- Re-designing what already exists naturally.
- Normalization
- Normalization
- Force-fitting function to follow (third normal)form to justify foregone conclusions.
- Object Orientation
- Object Orientation
- Assuming an implementation tactic makes up for the lack of an effective information strategy.
- System Development
- System Development
- Planning the least benefits at the highest cost.
- Data Mining
- Data Mining
- Gold or fool's gold?
- Managing Information to Its
Full Potential- Managing Information to Its Full Potential
- Managing information by how it CAN be used regardless of circumstances instead of restricting it to how we think it WILL be used in a specific circumstance.
- When Information Is More Important than Technology
- 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.
- Learning to Think about Information
- Learning to Think about Information
- Resolving incomplete concepts and contradictions that make it difficult to think about information.
- Informability
- Informability
- The four corners of information capability.
- Planning Change
- Planning Change
- Making change a part of systems instead of something that happens to systems.
- Data vs. Information
- Data vs. Information
- Distinguishing between organizing data-symbols and organizng information-meaning.
- Technology vs. Information
- Technology vs. Information
- Making technology fit how information works instead of making information fit how technology works.
- Process vs. Function
- Process vs. Function
- Putting function (what we accomplish) ahead of process (what we do) to eliminate process-oriented anti-functionalities hidden in conventional systems.
- Goals vs. Purpose
- Goals vs. Purpose
- Assuring how we achieve our goals (win battles) doesn't violate our overall purpose (lose the war).
- Results vs. Capability
- Results vs. Capability
- Planning systems with information capablities ("teach to fish") instead of providing a relative handfull of results ("give fish").
- Design vs. Discovery
- Design vs. Discovery
- How information fits the real world (discovery) instead of how it fits technology (design).
- Efficiency vs. Efficacy
- Efficiency vs. Efficacy
- Planning that how well we do something (efficacy) takes priority over how fast we do something (efficiency) while still improving efficiency.
- How Information Works!
- Information Topography
- Information Topography
- The natural organization of meaning. --- What we need to know about to know about something. --- What information tells us and what it tells us about.
- Information Layers
- Information Layers
- The layers within which meaning develops and builds from one layer to the next.
- Information Types (Topologs)
- Information Types (Topologs)
- The ingredients of meaning. Meaning possibilities within each meaning layer.
- Proto-Contexts
- Proto-Contexts
- "Things" (entities) and how they fit tigether (predicates) regardless of circumstances.
- Contexts
- Contexts
- Entity and predicate meanings; functionally the same in every situation but which we uniquely name for each situation.
- Sub-Contexts
- Sub-Contexts
- Informational possibilities within a context: identification, classification, correlation, collective, and comparison.
- Facts
- Facts
- What information means when we express it ... when we finally put it into data.
- Information Mechanics
- Information Mechanics
- The "Physics" of Information
- Information Origins and Precedence
- Information Origins and Precedence
- How we become informed.
- Information Dimensions
- Information Dimensions
- The four dimensions of information.
- Information Vectors
- Information Vectors
- Paths followed within information dimensions to derive new information from existing information.
- Supercession
- Supercession
- Just because informaiton is no longer current does not mean it is no longer information.
- Delta Vectoring
- Delta Vectoring
- What did we know, when did we know it, and what did we do about it?
- Information Correlations
- Information Correlations
- Beyond hierarchies and relationships. How information correlates.
- Making Information Work!
- Information Cartography
- Information Cartography
- Mapping the Information Content of a Business
- Defending against preclusion
- Defending against preclusion
- Assuring that no legitimate use of information is made impossible by how it is developed and organized.
- Policy vs. Reality
- Policy vs. Reality
- Managing information means reflecting reality, not creating or enforcing policy.
- The Importance of Context
- The Importance of Context
- Protecting against taking information out of context.
- When information becomes
data- When information becomes
data - Giving system users control over their own destiny.
- When information becomes
- Choosing the Right Data Form.
- Choosing the Right Data Form.
- What does it look like and what does it mean?
- Whole information.
- Whole information.
- Identifying whole instead of partial information.
- Single Meaning
- Single Meaning
- Keeping meaning simple and uncluttered.
- Overcoming Our Own Vocabulary
- Overcoming Our Own Vocabulary
- What we call it affects our ability to think about it.
- Merging Maps
- Merging Maps
- Seamlessly putting two or more information maps together.
- The Information Engine
- The 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.
- Making Information More Important than Technology
- Training
- Training ... Understanding information as a discipline, separate and distinct from technology, requiring new and different skills, knowledge, and perspectives. Making what we could and should accomplish with information more important than just using computers.
- Consulting
- Consulting ... Advising / mentoring organizations and project teams in identifying and solving information problems built into and perpetuated by conventional IT products and practices.
- Information Audits
- Information Audits ... Audit existing and proposed systems for informational lapses, inadequacies, and failures.
- Strategic Planning / Needs Analysis
- Strategic Planning / Needs Analysis ... Planning effective information management based on how information works instead of how technology works.
- Printable Overview/Summary
- Printable Overview/Summary
- A three page PDF overview/ summary on Rethinking Information Systems and Technology.
- Printable Information Map
- Printable Information Map
- A PDF Information Map example of a Public Utility.
