Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness
Friday, 26 Sep 2025 | Individual module review
This page was set up for the possibility that we would not have an alum to speak with us. Happily, we do have an alum to speak with us and The Big Three will lead the Q&A session with her.
What have we learned about the individual in the organization?
Does this sound right to you?
Thinking about how we think as individuals ...
... and as individuals within an orgranization
Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It's not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different intellectual communities no longer share basic foundational beliefs. Maybe nobody cares about the truth anymore, as some have started to worry. Maybe political allegiance has replaced basic reasoning skills. Maybe we've all become trapped in echo chambers of our own making - wrapping ourselves in an intellectually impenetrable layer of likeminded friends and web pages and social media feeds.
Escape the echo chamber | by C Thi Nguyen in Aeon Magazine, 09 April 2018
You don't have to read these unless you wish to ...
... but we might touch upon them in conversation
One thing we still want to emphasize with this book is the way in which, when reports isolate information or data, they too easily dismiss the complex social and organizational resources without which that information or data often simply makes no sense. Returning attention to those resources, problematic though they can be, can allay much of the anxiety that raw information or data give rise to by setting them in manageable contexts.
Read the intro (pages 11-12) to a classic on information and organizations, it might prove illuminating.