Information Proficiency : Your Key to the Information Age

Information Proficiency provides a comprehensive basis for understanding, anticipating, mastering, and even shaping the dramatic changes we are experiencing in the Information Age. For executives, entrepreneurs, empowered employees, information systems professionals, and technology developers, this book delivers inspirational success stories and an easy-to-use roadmap to achieve business success. Tom Buckholtz provides much-needed insight into integrating knowledge and technology tools into the organization’s strategy and structure, offering readers ways to align enterprise business and information goals and practices.

Information Proficiency provides practical advice on:
· Setting and achieving goals.
· Enhancing decision making and overall business capabilities.
· Maximizing benefits from knowledge and data.
· Integrating technologists into the strategic future of organizations.
· Designing systems and technologies that are both capable and flexible.
· Dealing effectively in the marketplace, whether as a buyer, seller or consultant.

Dr. Thomas J. Buckholtz played pivotal roles in the following endeavors: Create lines of business for a $1 billion (annual revenue) business unit. Save $100 million per year for a $6 billion company. Pioneer three information technologies. Establish three information-technology marketplace business practices. Develop useful, leading-edge business, engineering, and scientific software. Double a two-person firm's revenue for each of two consecutive years. Preserve 7 kilometers of Pacific Ocean coastline. Create an international service program. Improve governmental service for the American public. Create a grassroots line-of-business for a United States political party's National Committee.
 
Tom served in the following capacities: Executive leading a $1 billion business unit; Corporate officer and advisor for startups; Chief information officer (CIO) for a $10 billion enterprise; Co-CIO for the United States federal government's Executive Branch; Program leader advocating innovation, enhancing teamwork, and providing information technology throughout a $6 billion company; Commissioner, United States General Services Administration; Mathematician; Scientist; Engineer; Professorial Lecturer; University Extension Instructor; Speaker; Workshop provider; Author; Business advisor; Innovation consultant.
 
His education includes the following: Earn a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. Earn a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Complete business administration programs at Stanford University and the University of Michigan.
 
He is the author or a coauthor for articles, books, chapters, or reports regarding physics, applied physics, mathematics, computer science, applied computing, computer-based games, software licensing, innovation, systems-thinking tools, the information age, information proficiency, service science, governmental service to the public, and the role of chief information officers.