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By Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak
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![]() ![]() Review by Peter Morville (June 1, 2000) ![]() Information Ecology
The traditional approach to information management invest in new
technologies and cross your fingers just doesn't work.
We need to take a human-centered approach to designing and managing
information environments that encompasses:
They go on to define the following success factors for information
management:
The soft stuff is the hard stuff. (p.83)
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Managers spend 17% of their time (6 weeks a year) searching for information. (p.157)
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Despite twenty years of attempts to control information by creating an
"architecture" of what is needed by whom and how they might receive it,
the centralized engineering approaches employed have often neither
informed nor improved our discussions about information needs. (p.6)
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Information architecture, in the broadest sense, is simply a set of aids
that match information needs with information resources. A well
implemented architectural design structures information in an organization
through specific formats, categories, and relationships. (p.156)
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From an ecological perspective, identifying what information is available
today and where it can be found (information mapping) is a much better use
of architectural design than attempting to model the future. (p.163)
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