There are seven key information processes: collecting, organising, analysing, storing and retrieving, processing, transmitting and receiving, and displaying. These processes are used together to create computer-based systems that meet the needs of individuals or groups. The processes involve defining required data sources, gathering data, representing data format, interpreting data into information, saving data and information for later use, manipulating data into a suitable form, sending and receiving data and information within and beyond systems, and deciding information display forms.

1. Intro to Information
Skills & Systems
1.3 Steps in the Information Process

2.  There are seven key information
processes.
 They are:
 Collecting
 Organising
 Analysing
 Storing and Retrieving
 Processing
 Transmitting and Receiving
 Displaying

3.  These seven processes are used together
to create computer-based systems that
meet the need(s) of the individual or
group.
 Collecting is the process that defines the
required data and identifies the source of
the data.
 It also includes the determination of how
the data will be gathered and the
gathering of the data.

4.  Organising is the process where the
format in which the data will represented
is decided.
 Analysing is the process in which the
data is interpreted and transformed into
information.
 Storing and retrieving involves the saving
of both data and information so that it
can be used again at a later stage.

5.  The processing stage is where data and
information are manipulated into a
suitable form.
 Transmitting and receiving is concerned
with the sending and receiving of data
and information both within and beyond
the specified information system.
 Displaying is where the form of
information display is decided.
 Display devices can include screens,
printers, speakers or data projectors.

6. Readand summarise
Case Study –
Woolworths (pp.16,17)