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recent bookmarks from jerrykingBe Data Literate -- Know What to Know - WSJ.com2012-05-05T20:21:42+00:00
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jerryking>raw material<< to become information, it must be organized for a task, directed toward specific performance, applied to a decision. Raw material cannot do that itself. Nor can information specialists. They can cajole their customers, the data users. They can advise, demonstrate, teach. But they can no more manage data for users than a personnel department can take over the management of the people who work with an executive.
Information specialists are toolmakers. The data users, whether executive or professional, have to decide what information to use, what to use it for and how to use it. They have to make themselves information-literate. This is the first challenge facing information users now that executives have become computer-literate.
But the organization also has to become information-literate. It also needs to learn to ask: What information do we need in this company? When do we need it? In what form? And where do we get it? [i.e. = "information sources"]]]>Peter_Drucker data_driven critical_thinking data databases CIOs CFOs metacognition interpretative managerial_preferences questions information-literate information-savvy digital_savvy decision_making incisiveness insights organizing_data stop_doing data_literacy raw_materials tools information_sources toolmakinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ab59784af46c/