Information

management strategy
WHAT IS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
STRATEGY
• Information management strategy is one of a series of strategies that
organizations develop and implement to sustain or improve their
position in their markets.
Main issue

VALUE OF INFORMATION
DATA QUALITY INFORMATION SECURITY
TECHNOLOGY
Mini case
Developing an information management
strategy
• Strategy Process
Where are we now? The situation Analyst

Where do we want to be The vision and objectives

How are we going to get there? The Strategies

How do we introduce the changes? the implementation of the strategy

How are we doing? The monitoring and control of strategy

Information mapping
• Information mapping is a well-established technique to help
organizations manage information as a resource.
• Using this technique ‘information resource entities’ (IREs) are
identified. These include information sources, systems and services.
IREs are then plotted on an organizational information matrix with
these axes:
• Information holdings
• Information handling
• Information content
• Information media
Information policy
• Creating an information policy is
a great device for improving
information management
practice within an organization.
• is a statement of how
information management should
ideally be conducted in the
organization – ‘what should be’. Orna’s tools for information management
INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTROL
TECHNIQUES
• The basic purpose of information system controls in an organization is
to ensure that the business objectives are achieved and undesired risk
events are prevented or detected and corrected.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTROL
TECHNIQUES
• The basic purpose of information system controls in an organization is
to ensure that the business objectives are achieved and undesired
risk events are prevented or detected and corrected.
Practice and
The policies The procedures organizational
structures
Categories
Key points
• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
• Developing an information management strategy
• Information mapping
• Information policy
• INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTROL TECHNIQUES