Research on fuzzy assessment of effectiveness for information flow control

As an important asset, information plays a great role in the enterprise. It is consistently a hot topic for information management, and all the time, valuating its efficiency is a critical task. For a corporation, there are thousands pieces of vertical and horizontal information flows within it. The information management activities, in fact, can be regarded as the control on those flows. This research develops an analytical formwork according to the Shannon-Weaver communication model, which captures the process of information flowing, then establishes a practical method on fuzzy set theory to assess effectiveness of information flow control. With result of study, the enterprise can conduce itself to have cognizance of enterprise information management comprehensively.