Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Every business is an information business.
Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster
Harvard
Business Review
The Web is like a giant experiment. Everything is quantifiable. Everything is measurable. The Web, at its base, is about the electronic transfer of data, and therefore companies doing business online have access to more information about what their consumers want than ever before... Those who use their data wisely are the ones that progress fastest.
Today's operating systems and browsers are obsolete because people no longer want to be connected to computers... They want to be connected to information.
What the information highway promises is a lot of knowledge. We'll be smart if we use it. In fact, it delivers mostly just data. And data is just bits and bytes; and words and paragraphs, without context or content. Knowledge and information are a long way from "data".
When I add up what I spend for newspapers, magazines, books, databases, cable services, and so on, I find I spend about as much for information — food for thought — as I do for food.
Rather than trying to build a Web structure that can cough up any page based on any query, you might want to think about how to present the most needed information in the most appealing manner for your most important community of customers.
Eric Lundquist
PC
Week
The vulnerability of a business is proportional to the extent of its embedded compromises: between different activities tied together by information flows, and between its economics of information and its economics of things.
Evans and Wurster
Blown
to Bits
The right information and wrong information glow on the computer screen with equal intensity.
C.
Everett Koop
Former Surgeon General
Just because your message is out there doesn't mean you've communicated.
The basic economic resource is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
