Information and Intelligence
No commentsGreat blog by Mike Vizard called IT Needs to Be About Intelligence Not Information on the need for IT executives to ferret out intelligence from information.
Evolution of Information Age: In the early years of Information Age, the person with the access to exclusive information had the power. As information started to become more democratized with the Internet, the person who was able to organize the information was in demand. Now, with accelerated Democratization with the advent of Web 2.0 (bloging, social network etc.) there has been an information overload. Today, multiple sources of readily available information can lead one to conflicting conclusions. The source of some information can be dubious and some sources have their own agenda to market/sell their opinions. In today’s environment the person who has the ability to decipher the information and translate it into intelligence will be in demand.
Thus, this new breed of IT executives will not only have to keep the pulse on all sources of information (print, TV, internet, blogs) but also will need to have an ability to effectively articulate an intelligent solution. In my opinion IT executives need to execute an IT Systems Strategy that can align with Business Strategy based on that intelligence. If the focus is on information only and not on intelligence, then the same overwhelming information will render that information useless, since its humanly impossible to consume all that information. The IT systems will become more reactive to the changes in business needs. Thus, confirming Nicholas Carr’s view that ‘IT Doesn’t Matter’ as mentioned in my blog post IT Does Matter.
IT executives need to recognize that if they wish to make IT Department ”add value” then the focus has to be about intelligence that comes out of information, NOT on information itself.
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Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 9:20 am and is filed under Business Intelligence, IT Management, Nicholas Carr. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
