Organisational Semiotics definition
Organisational semiotics is concerned with the qualities of information and how it can be most effectively utilised to fuel the progression and efficiency of an organisation. The field treats organisations as information systems where data is stored, accessed, shares, deleted, changed and used.
Organisational semiotics originated with the release of computer scientist Robert Stamper’s 1973 book Information. Nowadays the study of organisational semiotics is interdisciplinary because of its broadness; psychology, for example, is relevant because of how people learn and take in information, and so is computer science for the architecture of IT systems.
The power and capability of technology has been a significant development in organisational semiotics because the amount of data that can be stored, the ways it can be processed and the ways it can be accessed have evolved beyond recognition.
