An information resource is an organized form of data: documents, technologies stored in information systems: libraries, databases, archives, the World Wide Web, access to which is via 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 needed to evaluate current activities, analyze the work of competitors, make forecasts for the future, which is extremely important for effective planning and management within the market economy.
In a general sense, world information resources are state, personal and enterprise resources.
First of all, companies or firms turn to accumulated data about employees, sales, and customers, which helps to analyze their business and provides a clue to many internal problems. For example, how to stop staff turnover, how to stimulate the employee, to learn the consumer history of the product.
The state (government) provides a huge amount of information available online (in fact, every state organization has a website). Compliance with legal and regulatory trends is essential 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, world information resources are systematized as follows: 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 the prevailing 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 a search on social media, enterprises can obtain certain information about other companies.
Special (or scientific and technical) information includes articles covering organizational and procedural aspects, scientific market analysis, development of information infrastructure, comparison of foreign methods.
The main components of the media sector are news and reference data, views, opinions expressed by the consumer audience, global news agencies, as organizations of journalists established to transmit news through newspapers, magazines, radio and television sources.
A huge number of websites offer discussion of management topics related to doing business. Most of them help start-up business owners in their plans, structures, ideas, information on government subsidies and laws. Also on the sites there are specialized articles, business organization textbooks.
According to the method of search (information), world information resources are classified into:
- web pages of a document or information resource;
- Databases (paid and free) on the Internet;
- file transfer protocols.
There are also teleconferences (discussion forums) available to discuss issues related to specific products. You can send your questions, observations, ideas, reports on potential errors to them, use the newsgroup archives.
