1. Galaxy Consulting Eleonora Babayants, MLS 650-474-0955 Eleonora.Babayants@gmail.com http://www. galaxyconsulting.weebly.com

2. Information Flow = Galaxy Galaxy – “any of numerous large-scale collections of stars, gas, and dust that make up the visible universe” – Free Online Dictionary “Information, including management of information, is growing by the microsecond. We can not turn off the flow. We had therefore better learn to control it - and we are already running late." Howell M. Estes

4. Companies, universities, laboratories, government, schools, etc. are acquiring and using information at greater rates than at any time in the past.

5. Information appears in many diverse forms.

6. Information can save time, money, and sometimes lives.

8. The true value of information is not its immediate use.

9. In order to effectively use information, it must be readily available for analysis and synthesis with other information.

10. In recent times information is also referred to as content. Content usually follows life cycle.

12. Enable collaboration

13. Eliminate paper records

14. Automate processes

15. Protect sensitive information

16. Improve control of information

17. Increase efficiency, and productivity

18. Reduce cost

21. Document Control is revision control of documents, assigning and tracking documents numbers, change control management, assuring documents compliance, documents routing and tracking.

22. The primary purpose of document control is to ensure that only current documents are used to perform work.

24. Document control

25. Enterprise search

26. Information architecture

27. Information governance

28. Taxonomy creation and maintenance

30. Data entry

31. Information research

32. Technical writing

33. Business analysis