Description
Business and information managers have struggled to meet several challenges in aligning information strategies and business cultures. The consequences of a misalignment or misfit of strategy and culture are well known in business literature, and better guidance on how to better align strategy and culture is needed. This means expanding the puzzle to align business and information cultures, align business and information strategies, and ensuring that there is a good ongoing fit between information cultures and business strategies. It also means that awareness of the information capabilities of an organization needs to be raised along with the different levels and types of information cultures.
Relating Information Culture to Information Policies and Management Strategies is a critical scholarly publication that provides a holistic picture of information cultures in order to help business managers understand those cultures and to provide a foundation upon which to ground and grow future information culture research. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as information culture, business strategies, and risk assessment, this book is essential for business managers, organizational executives, information managers, cultural experts, practitioners, academicians, managers, researchers, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Denise Bedford
Denise A. D. Bedford is currently an Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University’s Communication Culture and Technology program; Visiting Scholar at the University of Coventry, and a Distinguished Practitioner/Virtual Fellow with the U.S. Department of State. In 2010, Dr. Bedford retired from the World Bank where she had been Senior Information Officer for 15 years. In this capacity she was responsible for information and business architecture, search architecture, enterprise taxonomies and core metadata. In 2015, she retired from her role as Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management, Kent State University where she developed and directed a master’s level curriculum in knowledge management. Dr. Bedford has also worked for Intel Corporation, NASA, University of California Systemwide Administration, and Stanford University. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management and is the Editor of the new Emerald monographic series, Working Methods for Knowledge Management. Her educational background includes a B.A. triple major in Intellectual History, Russian Language, and German Language; an M.A. in Russian and East European History; an M.S. in Information Science; and a Ph.D. in Information Science with focus on Systems Analysis and Design, and Economics of Information.
Wioleta Kucharska
Wioleta Kucharska, Ph.D. Eng., holds an Assistant Professor position at the Management Department of the Management and Economy Faculty of Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. She is involved in multiple knowledge cultures, knowledge management, including tacit knowledge sharing scientific projects. She published many peer-reviewed studies with Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, and IGI Global. Next to scientific achievements, she also has 12 years of managerial experience.