information is everywhere in an organization.When addressing a significant business issues,employees must able to obtain and analyze all the relevant information so they can make the best decision possible.Organizational information comes at different level and in differents format and "granularities".Information granularities refers to the extent of detail within the information.Employees must be able to correlate the differents level , formats and granularities of information when making decisions. For example,if employees are using a supply chain management system to make decision,they might find that their suppliers send information in different formats and granularities at different level.One suppliers might send details information to the customers,another suppliers might send summary information and still another send aggregate information from a database.
Successfully collecting,compiling,sorting and finally analyzing information from multiple levels,in varied format,exhibiting different granularities can provide tremendous insight into how an organization is performing.Taking a hard look at organizational information can yield exciting and unexpected results such as potential new market,new ways of reaching customers ,and even new ways of doing business.
