Information management
SFIA 3: Definition
The overall management of information, as a fundamental business resource, to ensure that the information needs of the business are met. Encompasses development and promotion of strategy and policies covering the design of information structures and taxonomies, the setting of policies for the sourcing and maintenance of the data content, the management and storage of electronic content and the analysis of information structure (including logical analysis of data and meta-data). Includes overall responsibility for compliance with regulations, standards, and codes of good practice relating to information and documentation records management, information assurance and data protection.
Proposed for SFIA 4.0:
The overall management of the control and exploitation of all kinds of information, structured and unstructured, to meet the needs of the organisation.
Control encompasses development and promotion of the strategy and policies covering the design of information structures and taxonomies, the setting of policies for the sourcing and maintenance of the data content, the management and storage of information in all its forms and the analysis of information structure (including logical analysis of taxonomies, data and metadata). Includes the overall responsibility for compliance with regulations, standards and codes of good practice relating to information and documentation, records management, information assurance and data protection.
Exploitation encompasses the use of information, whether produced internally or externally, to support decision-making and business processes. It includes retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation.
The importance of Information
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2008-07-24 03:44 PM
It's now widely accepted that the 'IT profession' delivers its greatest value when it focuses on business, information and processes rather than technology. This is not well represented in SFIA3. Work by the Information Management group has identified 12 additional IM skills and a number of SFIA3 skills that are information-centered. These cannot, obviously, be represented by a single SFIA4 skill or even a subcategory.
They require a new category for IM and three subcategories:
* Controlling Information
* Exploiting Information
* Information Governance
They require a new category for IM and three subcategories:
* Controlling Information
* Exploiting Information
* Information Governance
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The overall management of the control and exploitation of all kinds of information, structured and unstructured, to meet the needs of the organisation.
Control encompasses development and promotion of the strategy and policies covering the design of information structures and taxonomies, the setting of policies for the sourcing and maintenance of the data content, the management and storage of information in all its forms and the analysis of information structure (including logical analysis of taxonomies, data and metadata). It includes the overall responsibility for compliance with regulations, standards and codes of good practice relating to information and documentation, records management, information assurance and data protection.
Exploitation encompasses the use of information, whether produced internally or externally, to support decision-making and business processes. It includes retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation whether performed by ‘IM professionals’ or others.