James Drogan

Miles post prompts me to lay out this general approach to information management.

The value of information management comes from the fifth step, Retrieve Information to Answer Specific Questions.  The growth of data of which Miles speaks results, it seems to me, in increasing effort and complexity in steps one through four.  I suspect that decreasing effort is applied to step six.  The net of all this may well be that in the face of an increasing volume of information, increasing the value of information management becomes more and more difficult.

I don't know that this is necessarily true.  I'm basing all this on my own experiences and my interpretation of recent failures in the US intelligence community.

I would be interested in how all of you feel about this.