Information Management - Information technology

The Birth of an (IT) Legend

Meeting New Friends…!

Miscellaneous Thoughts:

“We are not in the product business, we are in the knowledge business.”                                               

“Technology has given us the ability to understand 

what's selling in every store, item by item and hour by hour 
Looking for Information…

Aggregation!

Strategy, Technology, and Organization!

Basic Notions!

Data: A value that describes a part of the world

Information: Data with a low probability of occurrence

Knowledge: Interpretation of some piece of information by a human

Information Systems!

                             

The Information Life Cycle!

Knowledge Extraction Data Mining!

• Data warehouse 

• Machine Learning –Genetic algorithms –Decision trees (or forests) –Neural networks

Data Storage!

• Files
• Databases –Relational –NoSQL • Cloud-based Services
Information Publication!
• The Web vs Email vs Skype • Portals • Social Media • Syndication (RSS/Atom)
Knowledge Extraction Data Mining!

Thank you !