Why This Course
Every significant leadership decision depends on the quality of information available at the moment of decision. Yet most organizations have no deliberate strategy for how they collect, organize, preserve, retrieve and deploy information as a leadership resource. This course helps senior leaders close the gap between the information their organizations generate and the intelligence they actually use. It draws directly on the research and teaching expertise of the Department of Information Studies to address a challenge that is universal but rarely treated as a strategic priority.
What You Will Work On
- Information audit: a structured exercise to assess what your organization knows, what it stores, what it cannot find and what it has lost
- Knowledge management for institutional continuity: capturing expertise that walks out when senior people leave
- Records management and information lifecycle: governance, access, retention and responsible disposal
- Competitive and environmental intelligence: systematizing the scanning, analysis and reporting that supports strategic decisions
- Designing decision-support information flows for senior leadership teams
- Information culture: building organizational habits that value, protect and actively use institutional knowledge
What You Leave With
- A completed information management diagnostic for participants' own organizations, identifying critical gaps and priority investments
- A knowledge management action plan focused on preserving institutional memory and decision-making intelligence
- A clearer understanding of how information architecture supports or undermines the quality of leadership decisions
Designed For
CEOs, MDs, Permanent Secretaries, Chief Directors, Chief Information Officers, Directors of Research and Policy, Librarians, Knowledge Management Leads
Duration
2 Days | Diagnostic-driven intensive