Find the Ursa Major (Great Bear) on a Starred Night

If you have spent time on a farm away from the city lights and have had the opportunity to see a starred night you will find that this black and white landscape is second to none. However, you will find very hard to find de Ursa Major.
Now a day’s information workers live on a daily starred night where finding the information required among all the information available is not an easy task. This situation brings the following issues
• Very hard to find the most important information required to do your job.
• Distraction with interesting information however irrelevant or not important.
• Hard to define if the information means that we are doing fine or not.
• Very difficult to determine if the decision that we have made was the best alternative or if we have consider every possible alternative.

I am sure that most of us live on an environment as the one described above, if for these reasons that the information workers will have to develop the competency of creating information systems that will let relevant information to be received, analyzed and shared opportunely.
Is here where tools like Balanced Score Card, Business Intelligence, CRM and ERP will help you have the information you need (not more, no less) when you need it (not a minute late, not a minute early).

Typically these problems get solved internally in the organizations (if they do) but in our environment we need information from our vendors, our context (country, industry, region, etc.) and our customers. This is the reason we should look into a new set of enabling technologies like Feeds, RSS, Blogs, XML, etc.
From now on, when you look for information try to make sure that the only time you see a Starred night is when you are in the country far from the city.