information: whose job is it?

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Whose job is it to identify organizational information needs and make the best use of the organization\'s data resources?

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Information

Whose Job Is It?

2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

Mission

Issues

Decisions

Information

Data2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

Giving more data to a decision maker …

© 2000 Kevin Kuhne

… is like throwing water on

a drowning

man.

2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

© 2000Kevin Kuhne

We have to engage inWe have to engage inanalysis and diagnosisanalysis and diagnosis‑‑ ‑‑ that is, in that is, in informationinformation -- --

or risk or risk being being

swamped swamped by the data by the data

we generate. we generate. 2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

© 2000Kevin Kuhne

Executives and professional specialistsneed to think through …

… what information is for them, what data they need …2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

Thinking seriously

about what

we need and what we don't need -- with the emphasi

s on what

we don't need -- 2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

… the more data, the more information …

… leads to data overload and information blackout …

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The ultimate "limits to growth" of knowledge

and wisdom are time … and the capacity of people ‑‑ individually and in groups ‑‑ to analyze and think integratively.

2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

The ultimate goal of Information Resources Management is to make each member of the organization an effective information processor and decision maker to support his or her duties and tasks and to make the organization as a whole a productive user of internal and external information resources to accomplish its mission.

2000 Executive Decision Services LLC

DataDriven

DecisionDriven

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IssueIssue

Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data

Information Information Information

Decision

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Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data

Information Information Information

IssueIssue

Decision

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Five Questions1. What issues and problems will I face

over the next 3-5 years?

2. What decisions will I have to make?

3. What existing information, from my own unit and others, can I use to support these decisions?

4. What additional information will I need?

5. How will I be able to use this information to support my decision making?

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Data Data Data Data Data

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