As part of its monthly Development and Management training package, GRAVITAZZ Namibia is organising a course on Information Management (IM) from 26 – 28 June 2013 in Walvis Bay. The three day course will enable participants to have a practical understanding on the tools and methods of managing information for internal and external consumption. Senior executives and managers do not have the time to shift through countless pages of documents. It is essential that information sent to them speaks directly to issues and enables them to take informed decisions. It is important therefore for this information to have been appropriately collected, collated, analysed, organized and disseminated. Information needs to be targeted to the right audience, so that the wrong information does not fall in the wrong hands. All of these require IM skills. Understanding the concepts of information management and implementing them in the running of offices be they in government, non-governmental or private companies will ensure that the right information is available to the decision makers, timely, in an appropriate format, enabling informed and effective decisions or actions. The tendency is to assume that the task of collating and managing this information belongs to IT officers. Rule number one of Information Management is clear that the management of information is the responsibility of all. Information Management, also known as Content Management and Data Management, is centrally concerned with identifying, organising, evaluating, storing and disseminating information in the most effective and efficient manner. Effective information management involves ensuring that the right people organise the right information, at the right time and in the right format. To achieve this, information managers command a powerful mix of people skills and knowledge of organisational behaviour and processes, as well as the required information systems and resources. This is now making information managers increasingly more attractive to potential employers, since both private and public sector organisations are putting increasing emphasis on information as a source for competitive advantage. "Information is meaningless unless it can be made sense of, and to do that requires an internal system of thought and ideas that can provide context and relate it to other information we have already learned." Many people lack a coherent worldview with which they can evaluate and assimilate new information. The problem of information overload, therefore, may not be the quantity of it but our inability to know what to do with it. One possible explanation for this is the common confusion between information and ideas."-Danniel Tammet, Book your seat now to equip yourself with most effective tools and methods of managing information for internal and external consumption. For more information, contact: Tell: +264 61 419 300 Website: gravitazznamibia
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:17:47 +0000
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