1 BUSINESS INFORMATION SOURCES FOREWORD. MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS INFORMATION EnIL International School on „Business Information Literacy”, 13-17 October 2008, Rome, Italy Dr. Sabina Cisek Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland [email protected]
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BUSINESS INFORMATION SOURCES
FOREWORD. MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS INFORMATION
EnIL International School on „Business Information Literacy”, 13-17 October 2008, Rome, Italy
Dr. Sabina Cisek Associate Professor
Institute of Information and Library Science, Jagiellonian UniversityKrakow, Poland
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS INFORMATION (BI)
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The Module 1 structure and content
• Meaning, definitions, terminology, characteristics and importance of business information
• Business information needs and users • The business information industry:
producers and providers of BI • General description and categorization of
BI resources
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Meanings of the term „business information”
• Business Information is a domain of activity that: – involves – preparing/producing information sources;
collecting, managing and giving access to them; finding, evaluating and using information, etc.;
– includes – products (i.e. business information resources), services, systems, professionals, organizations, needs, users and uses, etc.
• Business information is a type of information
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Definitions of business information
• (1) Information FOR (doing) business– to make informed decisions – short-term,
long-term, strategic– to enhance business, products, technology
with current information– to gain profit, recognition and success
• (2) Information ABOUT business (and economics, and related issues)
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Terminology
• Business information• Business and economics information• Business intelligence• Competitive intelligence
• nearly synonyms
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Business information features• Business information should be reliable,
trustworthy, authenticated, current, up-to-date; but – historical data and controversial issues may also be needed
• Business information is based on resources that are already published and made available – Note a: that does not mean – these sources
are always easily available– Note b: of course there are exceptions
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Business information areas
• General business information resources = „starting points”
• Company information • Financial information = investment
information • Product and service information • Markets, marketing and trade
information • Other
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Business information needs, users and uses
• Who needs business information? What for? Why business information makes a difference? Why business information literacy is an advantage – for organizations and for everybody?
• Discussion with the course participants
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Business information needs, users and uses – who needs business information?
• In professional life • business enterprises • associations, not-for-profit organizations, NGOs • central and local governments, authorities• journalists, writers• researchers, scientists, students• advisers, brokers, lawyers
• In private life: everybody • anybody who wants to set up a business • buyers • credit takers • complaining clients • investors • job seekers • tax payers
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The Business Information Industry: producers and providers of BI (I)
• Non-commercial: – International organizations, like European
Union, OECD, United Nations, for example• Your Europe – Business (by EU European