In our daily activities, whether in professional area or others, sometimes or maybe we as people don’t realize about how powerful the information is. The information enable to influence the whole life of an organization or society where it is considered as the one information is useful. The concept of “from data to knowledge” is the most interesting one to digest and to be deeply understood about. It is about the process of data to be information then finally become knowledge. It is told that once we value the data, it becomes information and after we understand the information, it is a knowledge. It is very make sense to see the logical process. The interesting part is the data from one person can be useful as information for another, it doesn’t have to be the same person, but it might be as well. The importance of this concept in information management is it enables for an organization to make use of the data. In understanding the information management, this concept help the organization to identify the data to be information then to be its knowledge. Any kind of data is potential information, it depends on the person who interpret the data. By the meantime, this “data to knowledge” concept is able to be used in decision-making process. As the matter of fact, “data to knowledge” concept has the relationship with the strategic, tactical and operational decision concept which consist of long-term, medium-term and short-term decisions. The information is the material for organization to take the right decision.
