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building the body of knowledge
Why does a body of highly intelligent people, IT professionals allegedly renowned for their logical and systematic approach to problems, find it impossible to establish a genuinely sustainable and cumulative corpus of best practice, professional knowledge and lessons learned?
The confusion between data and information is undoubtedly one of the main reasons that organisations fail to establish effective information systems; because people don’t always recognise that data is actually a precursor of information. Here are some inspirational views and an object lesson in the art of presenting by the late Randy Pausch A significant proportion (c40%) of teenage boys in the UK apparently have very low levels of reading ability. A commentator on Radio 4′s Today programme attributed this poor performance to the tendency of teenage boys to develop their basic reading ability through using technology (text messaging, computer games etc.) instead of reading books. |
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet but data masquerading as information stinks!