Informing Science Challenges to Informing Clients: A Transdisciplinary Approach June 2001 Information Management Aspect of Innovative Processes

The so-called information society is one attribute of the modern innovative society. Due to complicatedness and complexity of the modern reality, it requires holistic, i.f. systematic thinking. On the other hand, systems thinking requires a rather holistic information at its basis. On such suppositions, authors discuss relation between information, innovation, and systems thinking, ad their implication for the information aspects of dealing with business and its management. The Selected Problem and Viewpoint The current reality is one of a growing complexity, and the current thinking is one of a growing narrow specialization. The gap between the two aspects of reality requires holism of action to be growing beyond the capacity of individual human beings. Creative co-operation may be a way out, but it requires capacity of: • transdisciplinarity in values and approach, “My profession is essential for the topic under consideration, but it is not the only one essential.