Advances in Enterprise Information Systems II – Møller & Chaudhry (eds)
© 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-63131-0
Information waste: Qualitative study in manufacturing enterprises
Heljä Franssila
University of Tampere, School of Information Sciences, Tampere Research Center for
Information and Media, Tampere, Finland
ABSTRACT: The study presented is this paper reports results from the first preliminary stage
in an empirical research project, where ways to quantitatively observe and measure information
as a resource in production process are developed. The specific approach pursued in research
project is lean management (Womack & Jones 1996). Specifically the concept of information
waste is explored for understanding of contribution ...