Archives and Information Management

Information management or, if you prefer, information resource management, is a management philosophy or approach which has as its goal the management of information as an asset, as a resource of strategic importance to the organization, analogous entirely to the planning and administration of human resources, financial resources, or any other asset.Information resource management is not a specific function or set of procedures; rather, it is an umbrella concept which embraces a number of related yet discreet functions:1. Information Strategic Planning: injecting an "information requirements" component into an organization's long-range business planning.2. Information Engineering: planning, "architecting," and designing the data and applications which together produce the information required to support the organization's business functions and its long-range plans. 3.Information Technology Planning: "architecting" the nature, shape, and structure of an organization's technology requirements, as driven by the organization's data and application architectures.