It’s an information management problem, it’s not a technology problem. Humans have been devising information systems for a long time. From cave drawings to the printing press, to the Internet, humans have been trying to convey information to others and...
Read moreAll humans play knowledge games in one way or another. (Even calling this Part 2 is a knowledge game, because there is no Part 1.) What you know, what you know that you don’t know, what you don’t know, what...
Read moreInformation systems have three main purposes: Record keeping Communication Forecasting And these purposes are interconnected. Record keeping helps with communication and forecasting. The problem is that not all information is of equal value. Information varies based on its accuracy, reliability...
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Information theory is the underlying foundation upon which modern information technology is built. Two key concepts of information theory are: 1) Encode as much information in as little space as possible. 2) Confirmation that the information has been transmitted and Read more…
In a manufacturing environment, inventory turns are a good proxy metric of the health of the business. The more inventory that flows through the business is an indication that sales and production are both going well. As jobs increasingly shift Read more…
When you need an information system to manage the information that is in your information system, you know there is something fundamentally wrong. It is toooooooo much. Just because you are able to track a lot of different things in Read more…
Darkness is infinite. Enlightenment is far more limited. Information is much the same way. What is known is finite. What is unknown is infinite. And the infinite far outweighs the finite. The paradigm of information systems is generally to capture Read more…
Information is a bit like sugar. It gives you a quick burst of pleasure and energy, but after the initial high, you are left feeling a bit empty and low. Yet, you still crave more. For example, Twitter is a Read more…
In some ways, information systems are the ultimate application area for design thinking. But you know what? I absolutely hate Design Thinking. It sounds pretentious. Fancy terminology for simple ideas that time forgot. And you know what is worse than Read more…
Walking on a trail the other day, I recognized a lot of problems with information. The trail map looks good. It makes sense, but the actual trail is often a bit more ambiguous than the map. The map is oversimplified Read more…