Foreword by John Ladley

There is no lack of thinkers and pundits who like to slice the world of business and organizations into their component parts. The early decades of the 21st century are going to be identified, in part, by organizations delving into understanding the various disciplines around data and information. This is a good thing to a point. After all, our world gets more complicated over time, not less. But the business world has a tendency to get to a point where the pundits are just talking about things, and not doing anything.

This is the case around the managing of information assets. The information component is fully acknowledged as being vital to our business and political world. This includes managing transactions, spreadsheets, ...

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