With so much focus on the cost of high-value information,corporations may overlook an even higher cost – that of failing tomanage information adequately. Bob Bater believes corporations arefinally understanding the risk, and presents alternative frameworks for information professionals for co-managing information and knowledge.
Simply stated, the new kind of problem we face is that information needsknowledge and knowledge needs information –a truism that seems to have beenlargely ignored by the recent histories of both information management andknowledge management. Without information to feed it, we can have no knowledge.And without knowledge, information is useless.
Bob Bater has been an independent consultant in information and knowledge management for over 15 years, working in the UK and in continental Europe. His approach to mapping knowledge and information onto business processes - linking these key resources to business objectives - has supported projects with clients as diverse as London Underground, the European Investment Bank and the UK Home Office. A regular trainer with Aslib in the UK, he has published a number of papers and contributed to several books on knowledge & information management, as well as authoring the 2005 Ark Group report ‘KM in the Legal Profession: Leveraging Knowledge for Enhanced Profitability'.
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