Research On Indentifying And Controlling Enterprises's Information Costs

In the early 1990's, the human being stepped from industry economic era into information economic era. Information has been one of the three underpinnings as well as material and energy in the world. Information resources have become the most important resources in enterprises and information technology is pervading all aspects of business. Each enterprise is yearning for winning in the competition by well using information and information technology. However, it's dangerous to do anything without considering the cost impact, so it is to the information and information technology. With the percentage of Information costs increasing, it becomes more and more significant to study Enterprise's information costs.Main content and major arguments of this thesis run as follows:(1) It puts forward four approaches on information cost studies based on the past researches on it, and then illustrates the concept on enterprise's information cost with more details; (2) Based on the four approaches on information cost studies, it forms the architecture on information costs by identifying them from enterprises;(3)it analyzes the change of enterprise's information costs and some influence factors on them;(4) it introduces basic four strategies on how to control and lower enterprise's information costs, including outsourcing, integration, supply chain management and construction on institution and culture.Main methods on this study include: comparing, analyzing, synthetizing, interviewing and so on. some instances are given for making it more believable and practical.Main innovations of this thesis include: (1) It innovatively puts forward four approaches on information cost studies and then illustrates the concept on enterprise's information costs with more details.(2) It introduces some basic strategies on how to control and lower the information costs on full-range and long-term view.