A recent post by Lou Rosenfeld mentioned someone named Donald Marchand, who's done some work on what he calls "Information Orientation":
To paraphrase Davies, IO-savvy organizations can:
- manage IT applications and infrastructure;
- manage information over its life-cycle; and
- instill and promote behaviors and values for the effective use of information.
A bit of googling about yielded the following readings on Marchand and Information Orientation:
- Managing Information, People, and IT to Drive Business Performance -- a presentation by Marchand at the Online Information conference in 2002 (PDF, 805 kb)
- Lessons from the Dark Side of Information Use (PDF, 50.2 kb)
- Back to basics: See, measure, and manage information capabilities (PDF, 129 kb)
- Is your company effective at using information? (PDF, 56 kb)
- The information edge: How to get the full value of information in the new economy (PDF, 2233 kb)