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Many modern organizations and business are information-based and consequently information in its various forms (data, objects, processes) is an asset. When information is externalized it must naturally be managed. As the UK Joint Information Systems Committee stated, “information that your institution creates and uses can either represent an asset or a liability. Into which of these camps it falls is largely dependent on how it is managed.” So, information management is a critical activity within the modern information-based organization. Naturally, this begs the question as to what information management is and how it can be defined.
To a large extent, information management is the entire spectrum of technical, operational, and social functions of an information system, whether digital or not, that is used to control information.
Information management includes the strategies, methods, and processes which are the foundation of information service provisioning and which enable information-based organizations. This implies management of information in all its forms – digital and non-digital information objects, data, records, documents. All of these represent an organizational resource and ought to be viewed as an asset and managed as such. Information management also includes processes such as those used to secure information, share it, store it persistently, and organize it for use. It also includes the information systems that are used in an organization and the management practices that use information to drive decisions.
Slide Deck: Principles of Information Management and Governance
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Paul T. Jaeger, Kim M. Thompson, Charles R. McClure, Information Management, Editor(s): Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Elsevier, 2005, Pages 277-282, ISBN 9780123693983, https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-12-369398-5/00531-4. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B0123693985005314)
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