by Prof. Don
Schauder, Professor of Information Management, School of Information
Management & Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash
University.
Under the impact of information technology, almost all organisations
and other social groupings are increasingly in the information and
knowledge business. Whatever else they may be doing, they are part of
(usually multiple) information value-chains linking upstream to suppliers,
and downstream to users through which the encoded stimuli we call
information are selectively transformed into knowledge in people's minds,
and vice versa.
In a highly competitive marketplace - in this case the knowledge
marketplace - two long-recognised strategies are possible:
differentiation of products and services and/or differentiation of
pricing.
What choices should universities make? What are the implications of
alternative choices for information and knowledge management policies and
infrastructures within and among universities? What are the consequential
risks and rewards for universities and their stakeholders?
About the
Presenter
Don Schauder BA, DipLib (Rhodes), MA (Sheffield), MEd, PhD (Melbourne)
is Professor of Information Management in the School of Information
Management & Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, at Monash
University. He has been the director of five libraries, most recently at
RMIT University. He founded INFORMIT Electronic Publishing at RMIT, and
was co-founder of VICNET, Victoria's Network. He is a member of the
Library Board of Victoria (and chair of its Library Network Committee ?
linking libraries in all sectors). He served on the Information Society
Committee of the Premier's Taskforce on Multimedia, and is a board member
of Infosentials Ltd, a global infomedia company.
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