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In this article an approach to optimize the utilization of information acquired by an organization is presented and the ways to process data into forms to be used for a better policy making process, has been reviewed.
different tools to acquire, process, preserve, retrieve and disseminate information so that it could be better managed and used for decision making.
©Institute for Political and International Studies managers make optimized decisions and see different scenarios with the cost and benefit analysis of each, so that the policy makers would choose amongst them according to their needs and priorities.
According to the forecasts of the future development, scenarios must be prepared by experts based on analyses so that decision makers could know options ahead along with cost and benefit analysis of each scenario; and at the end policies must be set according to rational mind and maximum utilization of the data available to the decision makers.
For example knowledge out of the information and finally to give options and different scenarios to decision makers through forecasting the future.
Information technology has tools for each step of information ladder described in this article and provides techniques for better, wiser and quicker processes of decision making and policy setting.
provided us tools and techniques to manage data, to process it in the form of information and to extract 86 THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAJRS Policy Making The last step in the ladder is about policy making.
Planning methods based on scenario making and knowledge management are developed for this types of processes.