Corporate Literacy

Summary: This book introduces a new facet for information and knowledge management: Corporate Literacy refers to the comprehensive literacy that companies and communities need in the networked, fast changing and complex environment. The views relating to organisations and information are changing along with the changes in the operating and information environment. The concept of literacy is also expanding. It cannot anymore be observed only from an individual point of view but the attention has to be transferred to communal skills. Based of these shared skills the organisation is able to build its own information architecture and to offer its information resources for use. This book will tell the reader how Corporate Literacy is created and what kind of a strategy can be used to develop it. The book includes information architecture of a literate organisation and new roles of information professionals. Key Features: 1. provides a new concept and facet to the field of information and knowledge management 2. integrates increasingly expanding information and media literacy skills to organisational literacy skills, to cover a range of different aspects 3. connects the usability of the introduces new roles and tasks for information professionals 5. explores literacy of companies, public administration and communities by using examples The Author: Anne Kauhanen-Simanainen is Project Director and Owner of CIM Communication & Information Management, Helsinki, Finland. She has 20 years experience as an information architect, consultant and writer. She has worked for companies, governmental and research institutions and universities. Readership: This book is aimed at developers, managers and information professionals in public and private organisations and communities. Contents: Corporate literacy - what is it, why it is needed -complexity and unpredictability; networked environment, comprehensive literacy Corporate literacy in practice - fields and formations of information the organization should be able to read; how does an organization read its environment; the new information architecture; empowering and sharing as key words Information skills and roles - information skills needed by everyone; new roles and tasks for information professionals Managing and leading corporate literacy - making a strategy: literacy by company and government; local literacy Corporate literacy in different contexts - in a company, government and local communities