Information Management Strategy
Define the long-term value and competitive positioning objectives for the management, sources, and uses of information.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Information Management Strategy at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Some informal practices may be in place at this level.
- Outcome
- Some functional level information management strategies may exist.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Develop local strategies within functional silos.
- Outcomes
- Islands of expertise are developing and tackling some issues.
- A coherent organization strategy is difficult to establish.
- Metrics
- # Strategic objectives for EIM in the business strategy plan
- # Strategic objectives for EIM in the Information Technology strategy plan
- 3Intermediate
- Practices
- Align information management with the business strategy.
- Train staff in Information Management skills relevant to their role and process requirements.
- Outcomes
- Information management strategies are associated with key business strategies.
- Staff have increased levels of competence and confidence.
- Communication among teams improves.
- Metrics
- Extent of alignment between information management and business strategies.
- Number of staff trained in relevant skills.
- # of courses available to staff.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Develop multi-year information management strategies aligned to business needs
- Outcome
- Information management strategies are responsive to changing business needs.
- Metric
- # Number of years covered by information management rolling strategy?
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Constantly review information management strategies based on business changes.
- Outcome
- Information management strategies inform and enable business strategy.
- Metric
- Frequency of information management strategy meetings