Who Might Need Information to be Created?

In an information society, organizations
of all kinds use information
and its associated technologies to
increase their efficiency, to stimu -
late innovation and to increase their
effectiveness and competitive position,
often through improvements
in the quality of the goods and services
that they produce. This
applies just as much to organizations
in the public and voluntary
sectors as it does to those in the private
sector. The key factor is the use
of information as a management
resource to improve organizational
efficiency and effectiveness.
There also tends to be a steady
process of industrial and organizational
re-structuring as organizations
move up the value-chain,
adding greater amounts of value
through the application of knowledge
and, in so doing, raising the
country’s gross.

Moore, N. (2001) Library Associations: Their Role in Supporting the Creation of
Information Societies. IFLA journal [0340-0352]. vol:27 iss:3 pg:173.

Creation of Information Through Trial and Error?

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Into the Basics

The need to understand the environment is paramount to the creation of information as stated in the following:

The requirements that are highlighted
include the need for continuous learning in this
turbulent, dynamic, and uncertain environment and the
importance of clearly understanding markets, developing
innovative product, promoting customer service offerings,
and providing a clear value-to-the-customer focus (Heinrichs, 2005, 622).


To create information, there must also be a plan in place to present the end result:

The information visualization capability of the competitive
intelligence tool aids in knowledge creation and strategic
information use by linking data representation with the
decision-making task(Heinrichs, 2005, 622).

The creation of information is, on the whole, (and to a certain degree, at its core), based on the competencies of the data that is being collected as this data will then be processed into the information itself:

These competencies
include the capability to discover the various patterns
in the data, appraise the success of the chosen strategy, develop
insights based upon the discovered patterns, and then
formulate responses to the generated insights (Heinrichs, 2005, 623).

John H. Heinrichs, Jeen-Su Lim. April 2005.Model for organizational knowledge creation and
strategic use of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Volume 56, Number 6, pp. 620-629,

Let There Be...Information?

The First Law of Thermodynamics is that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, here we will attempt to discern whether or not the first half of that statement is true for information. Please post thoughts on the possibilities and problems with information creation itself and the methods through which this/these processes occur.