Specialist information design, development and management - for enhanced information performance & real business benefit

"I have found the project management at 3di to be excellent and fundamental to the success of our projects."

At 3di we believe that the better the information design, the easier it is to develop and the more effective it will be when delivered. How well information is planned, written and organised is critical to its value as a productivity -enhancing asset for your organisation. 3di is the perfect partner to help ensure your information is designed and developed to deliver real benefits.

To help our customers with information design, we use the idea of an information model. This model represents the communication and authoring challenges and illustrates how they can best be solved. A well-designed information model should deliver the following benefits:

• Quicker and easier for information owners to contribute
• Less duplication and wasted effort
• Easier to reuse good information
• Quicker for readers to find what they need
• Easier to demonstrate compliance to regulations
• Consistency of style throughout the organisation
• Easier and faster to publish
• Translation is quicker and cheaper

Information can be divided into modules, each self-contained and having a specific function. By using modules as the basic building blocks of an information model, you are helping to ensure that your model is flexible, like Lego®. Information models help you to organise information needs and have become critical in designing effective content management systems.

Modularity makes it easier to reuse, maintain and single-source information. Modularity is also a useful way of creating patterns in information. Readers subconsciously look for and respond to patterns, and this helps them to read and understand information more quickly. Translation also becomes quicker, cheaper and easier to manage when the source has been written in a modular way, particularly when multiple languages are involved.

Establishing a model that will significantly improve the way your organisation performs, is less about look-and-feel than about implementing solid, basic rules and then making it easy for people to follow them.  Using the proven Information Mapping® methodology, 3di has the expertise to consult on and implement powerful new standards for your organisation that are cost effective.

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