Tonight I got the first posting to the Forum done for the course. It was good to begin to think about the topic of the "pyramid of abstraction" whereby today's organizations translate data into information...then use the information to improve their knowledge...and ultimately as "intelligence" to help improve the business.
A quote from the text that stood out to me was "In the last few years, the ability to create, collect, and store information has widely outpaced our ability to make significant use of that information." (Loshin, 2003) -- I feel compelled to reference this or risk having 5 points taken off. Oh wait..this isn't for class. Never mind.
At any rate....is this the modern day way of saying "you're trying to get above your raising (except I think my dad always said "rais-in")?" Think about it. Are we? We have data, data, data....more than we can choke on actually.....and we're in a learning curve on how to translate it into "information" and ultimately "intelligence."
(927 hits as of today....yet more "data" to figure out how to translate into "information"...and use as "knowledge"...and make an "intelligent" decision as to whether it's worth my time to continue writing this blog for the next 2 years).
It will be worth your time to write this blog if we the readers will take the information you share and use it and apply it to our work and/or daily life.
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