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5 ways to add value to information

Ross Dawson, March 15, 2010 10:50 PM US PT

As I prepare a presentation to the senior staff at one of Australia's more innovative universities later this week I just had a glance at the slides to a keynote I did back in 2002 to the Australian Library and Information Association. I used the image below showing five ways to add value to information. It still makes sense.

1 Comments

Zainul Franciscus said:

Hi Ross,

I like your framework of transforming low-value information to high-value information. May I propose a sixth component, if this is not already exist in one of the existing five, "combination". The idea behind combination is a process to combine multiple information or knowledge sources to form a superior information or knowledge.

I use this all the time when I am working on my software projects. I combine information from different sources such as books, forums, online blogs, colleagues, and friends to formulate a superior solution for a problem that I am trying to solve.

March 25, 2010 7:22 PM

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network, leading events firm The Insight Exchange, and influence ratings start-up Repyoot.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.