Information: a resource for management

• Autor(a) principal: Saraiva, Helena Isabel Barroso
• Data de Publicação: 1999
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.1999.673

The present article refers to the circumstances under which the management of the organisations takes place nowadays in an information oriented society, where the key to the success is the capacity of receiving, storing and transmitting information efficiently and at a proper time. Toe turbulent setting, in which the organisations act, implies the increase of unstructured problems, therefore, the information should be considered as a decision support as well as a component of that decision and also as something that influences it, that is, as a resource for management. The information appears as an integrating part of the management processes. Nevertheless, it can not be regarded as an abstract entity: the organisation has to define the information strategically relevant for its business. Consequently, the information should be seen as a resource in economical terms, that is why it has to be managed as any other resource. Nowadays, the management of the organisations is, more than anything else, to work and process information.