Creating a sound information strategy

There are four pillars to a sound information strategy. The first is managing the information assets. That involves creating an information management department that partners with the enterprise architecture team to guarantee system interconnectivity and standardization; developing an enterprise information model to inventory information as it is created, accessed, transferred or copied across the enterprise; and creating an enterprise-wide metadata repository that includes the metadata for all pieces of information. The second pillar is setting information governance policies to protect information from unauthorized access and removal. The third is identifying and documenting necessary roles, including information strategist, information steward, information architect, metadata specialist, information quality specialist and information security specialist. Finally, identify areas the organization must focus on, along with their business priorities and plans of approach. These include master data management, data integration, information quality, business intelligence , enterprise content management, knowledge management and competitive intelligence.

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