Screen LibraryCorporate literacy : discovering the senses of the organisation /
This book introduces a new facet for information and knowledge management: Corporate Literacy refers to the comprehensive literacy that companies and communities need in the networked, fast changing and complex environment. The views relating to organisations and information are changing along with...
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Chandos,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Chandos knowledge management series
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781843342618 |
| Summary: |
This book introduces a new facet for information and knowledge management: Corporate Literacy refers to the comprehensive literacy that companies and communities need in the networked, fast changing and complex environment. The views relating to organisations and information are changing along with the changes in the operating and information environment. The concept of literacy is also expanding. It cannot anymore be observed only from an individual point of view but the attention has to be transferred to communal skills. Based of these shared skills the organisation is able to build its own information architecture and to offer its information resources for use. This book will tell the reader how Corporate Literacy is created and what kind of a strategy can be used to develop it. The book includes information architecture of a literate organisation and new roles of information professionals. Provides a new concept and facet to the field of information and knowledge managementIntegrates increasingly expanding information and media literacy skills to organisational literacy skills, to cover a range of different aspectsConnects the usability of the information architecture and information resources to the corporate literacy. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781780631561 1780631561 1306381398 9781306381390 |
| Index Number: | HD30 |
| CLC: | F270.7 |
| Contents: | Corporate literacy -- what is it, why it is needed -- complexity and unpredictability; networked environment, comprehensive literacy; Corporate literacy in practice -- fields and formations of information the organization should be able to read; how does an organization read its environment; the new information architecture; empowering and sharing as key words; Information skills and roles -- information skills needed by everyone; new roles and tasks for information professionals Managing and leading corporate literacy -- making a strategy: literacy by company and government; local literacy. |