In the world today, the real power is not in muscle nor determined by the strength deposited in oneself, it is the amount of information a person have or have gathered. Information management is in fact the bedrock for any establishment one can ever think of, it is the reason why they say "knowledge is power".
In the society, we can attest to the fact that everything carried out around us is as a result of generated information, it is as a result of what was thought and then given out and circulated.
Information:
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts.
This meaning of information is gotten from wikipedia, and to the best of my understanding; I see it more profound and more complete than any other meaning given to this concept.
For information to be useful it must be properly managed and utilized. A lot of people holds some amount of information that should have changed their lives but its just quit unfortunate that they lack the sense of managing the information, thus they live with ignorance and therefore be termed as foolish. If you have an information, it should be able to change yourself, and every one else around you.
Information Management:
Information management ( IM ) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it.
Information management embraces all the generic concepts of management, including the planning, organizing, structuring, processing, controlling , evaluating and reporting of information activities, all of which is needed in order to meet the needs of those with organisational roles or functions that depend on information. These generic concepts allow the information to be presented to the audience or the correct group of people. After individuals are able to put that information to use, it then gains more value.
Well said, for information to be a valuable one it must be of use, its not all information that are useful so it us important to always gather information that will be useful to humanity.
Why Information is Important
Like earlier said, everything today is as a result of information that was utilized, and applied in the right way.
For we to break limits, we need information, for you to be more intelligent you should be able to explore and inquire more facts about your concept of study. These is also applicable to life, for we to make the world a better place we need lots of information and not just gathering those information but passing it, utilizing it, structuring it and most importantly solving problems with it.
" Being smart is not using varieties of information to change yourself, it is the ability to use just a piece of information to change the world "-Ezra Bassey.
It is not the amount of information you have that makes you a genius but what you can create out from the little information you have is what makes you a genius, the amount of people that gets to benefit from your information is what makes you a genius; that is why I say that TEACHERS are the most important people on earth, because it is from the information that they deliver, we have the doctors, the engineers, the judges and so on....
Isaac Newton didn't have to learn everything before the world could benefit from him, so what he did was to allow the world to benefit from the little he had.
Michael Faraday didn't invent everything but today we almost can't do without his invention.
These people are so numerous, they have done it and the world is still benefitting from their information.
The funny thing about useful information is that, they never get worn out, they are always just as new as from its origin. People have done it with just a piece of information, you don't have to know everything before the world benefit from you, cause the opportunity might never come, so use that little information you have today to change the world.....
If they have done it, its a hope that should tell you that it is possible for you to do even better, what you need is I formation and nothing more, so treat it with care, find it with aim and utilize it for the better....
Author: Ezra Bassey
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