Unlike Nicolas Carr, in his book "Does IT Matter". questioned whether any investments in technology would yield to strategic advantage, Infosight Partners truly believes that the delivery of information does indeed matter, but only when it results in relevant, trustworthy, actionable data that is aligned with the strategies and intents of the organization.
In many organizations technology investments do not have yield a significant positive financial impact on the organization because those who wield the know how to identify and publish the information that would make a difference either have an overly inflexible foundation architecture incapable to be retrofitted to serve the current high value needs of the organization or do not have the necessary attention of those who can communication what the high value needs of the organization are at the present time.
We believe that forging a blueprint of organizational strategies aligned with available data is the starting point. Much of what you identify will have holes, be of suspect quality or have timeliness issues that all go into deriving an information strategy that has information value baked into it.
Your organizational stewards will thank you if and only if you deploy your environment in such a way so that information relevance, actionability and trustworthiness are all part of a repeatable process that constantly percolates information aligned with current day issues to the top of the heap.
While using today's practices this is not an easy feat, by calling in those who are dedicated to such an endeavor, such as InfoSight Partners, your chances of success are greatly improved.