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Following this abstract are an enormous number of words bringing readers, who have the energy to expend trudging through them, a deeper understanding of what should already be obvious to most of those who deal with our complex information infrastructure.
And that is…
Whether analyzed from the perspective of individuals, business, political or social organizations, we all benefit greatly from our information infrastructure.
Further that it unfortunately remains an amalgam of mixed structures, standards and technologies patched together over the generations.
Worse still, that all manner of accommodations to the particular limitations of each technology or construct were made and often capriciously so. Y2K ring a bell?
We continue to grudgingly bear the costs of such things as - Quirky imposed paradigms, a lack of common structures, awkward unnatural interactions, valuable but unprocessed legacy information and silos of information isolated by structure and/or connection.
What the reader may not have known is…
Our species is “wired” to operate best within certain paradigms.
The days of making generous accommodations to our information infrastructure are numbered.
For the first time in human experience, we can and do now insist that infrastructural solutions conform to our unique wiring, deliver value and stay out of our way.
There is a company who has developed the unique and wonderful Structured Key Information Enterprise Repository (SKIER) technology - Aligning information structure in ways that naturally compliment how humans organize themselves and deal with the acquisition, use and sharing of our hard won information.
Now for those of you with a life that is short on free time, but long on responsibilities, we suggest that you stop here. However, before you put this away, you owe it to yourself to do two more little things. These are:
Glance down this page and make a note of our company name. Yes it is made up - just like Kodak was. No it doesn’t mean anything either – we just like it.
Sometime soon, take a moment to ask your subordinates if your information infrastructure is working for you, or are you working for it? Ask for the answer in dollars if you like to keep things around your office lively.
While this abstract is certainly presented “Tongue and cheek”, we are very serious. There are an enormous number of words in this paper.
Somebody somewhere could benefit by reading them…
Unlike many purely technical Information Management presentations currently in the public domain, this paper is a high level abstraction treatise. It contains a novel analysis, a unique paradigm as well as an introduction to their manifestation as a software application that is well synchronized to fundamental human attributes and expectations.
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