Information logistics (IL), as a section of information management, deals with the flow of information within an organizational unit or between any number of organizations that in turn form a value creating network.
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With other words, information logistics is about providing:
Methods for achieving the goal are:
The expression was formed by the Indian mathematician and librarian S. R. Ranganathan.
The supply of a product is part of the discipline Logistics. The purpose of this discipline is described as follows:
Logistics is the teachings of the plans and the effective and efficient run of supply. The contemporary logistics focuses on the organization, planning, control and implementation of the flow of goods, money, information and flow of people.
Information Logistics focusses on information. Information (from Latin informare: "shape, shapes, instruct") means in a general sense everything that adds knowledge and thus reduce ignorance or lack of precision. In stricter sense information becomes information only to those who can interpreted it. Interpreting information will provide knowledge.
These definitions explain what the Information Logistics is all about. The provision of information for the knowledge worker within the correct context, enabling him or her to make the right decision.