Information products revisited

摘要

An earlier article (International Journal of Information Management, 16 (5) 341–351) reported on initial findings from research on how organisations manage the area of their activities whose function is to give essential information to inner and outer worlds, in the form of ‘information products’. The research, carried out over a five-year period, set those activities in a context in which they have not commonly been considered: the organisations which create the information products; and it sought to illuminate them with relevant research and practice from the disciplines concerned with information science and information design. The present article compares the findings reported two years into the research with the situation by the end, three years later; and ends with proposals for practical application of the outcomes to help organisations in managing their information products more strategically and effectively.