Information Float

Information float - The length of the delay in the time a fact becomes known in an organisation to the time in which an interested knowledge worker is able to know that fact. Information float has two components : Manual float is the length of the delay in the time a fact becomes known to when it is first captured electronically in a potentially sharable database. Electronic float is the length in time from when a fact is captured in its electronic form in a potentially sharable database, to the time it is "moved" to a database that makes it accessible to an interested knowledge worker.

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Source: Larry English, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 28-Jan-2009 14:27