Lot's of facts. At least things that are called facts. Lots of information. But is it useful? Lot's of people saying lots of things. But are they trustworthy? Finally - how much of this knowledge really even matters?
Here's an excerpt from the Management Study Guide from a corporate point of view.
Information Overload and Knowledge Management
Having said that, it is not the case that accumulating knowledge just for the sake of acquisition leads to business success. Indeed, as the previous section outlined, the keywords or the key terms are to possess relevant and pertinent knowledge.
OK - so not everything is useful. The things that are useful should be determined by what we consider to be success. Not for a business - but for us. An individual. A family. Friends. The bottom line - people, not jobs or objects.
In other words, any organization can just log in to the internet and download all the information and content that applies to its sphere of business if possession of knowledge was the sole criterion for success.
Yes, all sorts of information is available on the internet. We can learn and allegedly know all sorts of things from the internet. But it still begs the question, "Can I trust what I think I know?"
Instead, as the key theme of this article, we present the insight or the observation that in times when we are drowning in information, the ability to recognize and sort useful and relevant knowledge is the key to success.
Ah. We get a bit deeper here. Knowledge needs to be both useful and relevant. However, It's interesting to note, our question is still unanswered. "Can I trust what I think I know?"
If we examine contemporary business landscape and the media sphere, we find that Google and other search engines, Social Media such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as the available databases of journals and other items, provide us with unlimited information available at the click of a mouse or to be timelier, at the swipe of a Smartphone button.
It's nice to know they reference some of the sources I mentioned earlier. But still. Should we just assume everything we read is trustworthy? I don't.
Indeed, such oceans of information that are available are variously called Information Overload and Information Abundance that can easily drown us or make us adrift if we are not thorough enough to sort the Wheat from the Chaff and are not diligent enough to gather what is needed and to leave what is not.
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