I’m currently looking to introduce a management information system, whatever that means, into a company. to me it just means information retrieval, people who want stuff should be able to get it. i’m looking at wikis and rss because this seems to me to offer a nice way of structuring inormation and selectively alerting people to what’s there.
i’ve talked to a few people about doing this and they’ve been helpful to varying degrees. however, what surprised, nay astonished me, is the ignorance of all the professionals i spoke to. by professionals i mean those who get paid to project manage and implement IT solutions, to manage business information. to a man they have been clueless. two of them had never heard of a wiki, or rss, or tagging.
something tells me i shouldn’t be so surprised.
picture from flikr: ignorance
