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Home1. Home
Information and Organisations2. Types
Organisation pick and place3. Exercise 1
Information for Employees4. Employees
Employee example5. Exercise 2
management requirements6. Short / Long
Accuracy of information7. Accuracy
Quality if information8. Time critical
movement of information9. Movement
Conclusion10. Conclusion
Conclusion11. Research

8. Timeliness of information

Another aspect of information is how up-to-date is it? There are some organisations that simply must work with time-critical information.

Stocks and share trading - billions of pounds change hands based on information that is only a few minutes old - and is out of date a few minutes later!

  timely information is vital
     
Some information has to be timely  

Fire service needs the very latest traffic information to plan the best way to an emergency
     

Electricity company managing the national grid keeps track of second by second demand in order to keep the system working efficiently.

 

   Electricity companyies need up to date information
     
Phone companies need up to date information  

Telephone companies constantly re-route phone traffic through the least busy parts of their networks in order to avoid bottlenecks.

 

Can you think of other time-critical information?

 

 

 

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