Information
Management
Strategy
DEWI SARTIKA,S.S.T.,M.M.
Information management strategy is one of a
series of strategies that organizations develop
and implement to sustain or improve their
position in their markets. These strategies
Introduction
include organizational or corporate strategy,
marketing strategy and operations management
strategy. To best understand the nature and
purpose of information strategy, it is helpful to
consider it in the context of the organizational
strategy it should support.
Organizational Strategy : Definition of the future
Introduction
direction and actions of an organization specified
as approaches and allocation of resources to
achieve specific objectives
Information Management Strategy : Definition of
management approaches to the organization,
Introduction
control and application of organizational
information resources through coordination of
people and technology resources in order to
support organizational strategy and processes.
Senior management will focused on general or strategic,issues related to
overall business development in the long term. At this level decisions tend to
relate to issues with long term such as restructuring, major financial
investment and other strategic undertakings related to company’s future
rather than present. Information necessary for decision making at this level is
comprehensively gathered not only from the internal sources of the company
itself, but also involves external information, such as data related to
economic situation or sectors as a whole.
Business that heavily rely on information develop an information
strategy to establish how to manage information for business
advantage and to comply with government regulation. An information
strategy is a planning document usually created at the strategic level
by the Chief Information Officer (CIO), possibly together with a Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) and IT Manager.
An information strategy is developed to support the overall business
strategy of an organisation and explains how information should be
captured, processed, used and disposed of throughout its lifecycle.
Although the structure of an information strategy varies from
business to business, there are some common areas included in most
information strategy documents.
Tabel 1. Typical Construct of an Information Strategy Document
To provide spesific guidelines to their employees, contractors,
trading partners and other external stakeholder on the processing,
storage and communication of various types of nformation, business
firms usually create an information policy documents. This document
is extremely important when an organisation handles security
sensitivity levels of information asets of a company are appropriately
protected from threats or disclosure.
We have said that the information systems strategy should
support organizational strategy, but which specific activities are
involved? These activities are used to manage the different
business information management resources. These resources
include information resources, technology resources such as
Information applications and infrastructure and the people resources that
Systems use the other resources. Activities conducted by these people
Strategy resources which are specified and controlled through the
information systems strategy have been usefully grouped into
Activities four different types of services by Ward and Peppard (2002):
1. Strategy and planning services
2. Applications development services
3. Application and technical management services
4. Technology, delivery and maintenance services.