Information Management: The concept, basic approaches and types of companies

Information Management is a technology whose main components are considered:

- staff;

- documents, software and hardware security processes.

Recently, this type of management is becoming popular due to the transition of society to a new, post-industrial stage of development.

are of great importance in the management of information systems, which must necessarily be approved by the regulatory.They are a set of organizational and ordered arrays of instruments and technologies with application of computer and communication tools that implement the system infoprotsessov.

Information systems are designed to store, manage, search, distribute, transmit, and provide data.So you need to consider in more detail the characteristics of their formation and operation.

Information management in the organization is developing in accordance with the following provisions.

Firstly, it is only within a particular company.

Secondly, the information becomes an independent factor of production lying in the decision-making process.

Third, information management relates not only to information but also to all the information the organization.And it is more ambitious and broader concept than just document management.

Information management - especially the management of the formation and use of data in the interest of the company.Its main goal - to ensure the effective development of the company due to the regulation of different types of activities.

There are different interpretation of the concept "information management" in different countries.

in German schools under it refers to a variety of management goals and objectives, which concerns the scope of the formation and use of information resources.

The English school IT-Management is treated as a complex management tasks that are associated with the system information data.

In the Russian definition of information management includes an extensive range of management tasks, the solution of which will depend on achieving the goals of a particular company.This is achieved through a coherent and efficient management of information resources and technologies of the enterprise.

In this type of management in accordance with the above parameters can be characterized by two types of enterprises.

In companies with a high level of application of information management, is allocated a number of indicators:

  • leadership of the organization is able to explain the complete procedure of its organization;

  • top management is directly involved in the main proceedings and policy directives;

  • have clear business goals in order to carry out investments in this sphere;

  • has dynamics to reduce the changes in management.

in companies with a low level of application of information management, the following set of indicators:

  • senior management of such management is seen as the industry has low profitability of investments;

  • information management in this form becomes an obstacle to implement the new strategy of the company;

  • contradictory or slow action in decision-making in IT;

  • top management is not able to explain the basic procedures and operating under the management;

  • projects companies in IT have never fit into the budget or timing;

  • often change control mechanisms.

Because of these two approaches to management theory and practice of information management in Russia requires a considerable revision.