How Businesses Use Information
These seven articles provide a nice overview of how businesses use information, however; note that data and information are not synonymous. Jot down for yourself how they differ to be sure you can keep them straight. Hint: Our old friend "structure" is involved!
Introduction to Information Networks
What you'll learn to do: compare the ways that businesses can manage information
Billions and billions of bits of data flood into an organization's information system, but how does that data get utilized effectively? The challenge lies not so much with the collection or storage of the data: today, it is possible to collect and even store vast amounts of information relatively cheaply. The main difficulty is figuring out the best and most efficient way to extract and manage the relevant data and resulting information. In this section you will learn how organizations use a variety of networks to manage their information.