Information resource is an organized formdata: documents, technologies that are stored in information systems: libraries, databases, archives, the World Wide Web, accessed through the Internet.
Every business that strives for prosperity,needs information services, determined by the relationship between suppliers and consumers. These economic, legal and other relationships help to provide the background that is necessary to evaluate current activities, analyze the performance of competitors, make forecasts for the future, which is extremely important for effective planning and management within the market economy.
In general, the world's information resources are state, personal and enterprise resources.
First of all, companies or firms turn toaccumulated data on employees, sales and customers, which helps to analyze your business, provides a clue to many internal problems. For example, how to stop staff turnover, how to stimulate an employee, to learn the consumer's product history.
The state (government) provides a hugethe amount of information available online (in fact, every government organization has a website). Compliance with legal and regulatory trends is a fundamental necessity for effective management.
Personal information refers to the practice of organizing and managing people, data (documents, both on paper and digital media) that relate to their personal activities.
Taking into account these general categories, the world information resources are systematized in the following way: business, special and mass information.
Any business is considered part of, at least,One industry that can serve as a rich source of business information. Participation in relevant professional associations helps enterprises to have the necessary data on dominant trends in each specific period of time in the industry, best practices. As you know, there is no business without competition. Therefore, collecting data on competing firms is a necessary need.
Fortunately, with the advent of the Internet, global information resources have become more accessible. Through the search in social media, businesses can obtain certain information about other companies.
Special (or scientific and technical) informationincludes articles covering organizational and procedural aspects, scientific analysis of the market, development of information infrastructure, comparison of foreign methods.
The main components of the massinformation are news and reference data, views, opinions expressed by the consumer audience, world news agencies, as organizations of journalists established to transmit news through newspapers, magazines, radio and television sources.
A huge number of websites offerdiscussion of management topics related to business management. Most of them help start-up business owners in plans, structures, ideas, information about government subsidies and laws. Also on the sites there are specialized articles, textbooks on business organization.
World information resources by the method of search (information) are classified into:
- Web page of the document or information resource;
- databases (paid and free) on the Internet;
- File transfer protocols.
There are also teleconferences (discussion forums),available to discuss the problems associated with certain products. They can send their questions, observations, ideas, reports on potential errors, use the archives of teleconferences.
