Friday, March 8, 2019

The Monthly Insight of Information Management: Leverage Information Power in Digital Transformation Mar. 2019

Information potential directly impacts the business's potential for the organization. 
The aim of modern Information Management has often been described as getting the right information to the right person, in the right format and medium, at the right time, in order to make the right decisions. The value of information is qualitative, measurable, and defined uniquely by an organization.

    Leverage Information Power in Digital Transformation 


How to Unleash Information Power for Improving Business Maturity Business and technology are now forever interwoven, and IT is the linchpin of running a digital business. IT is shifting from “T” oriented monolithic type support center to “I” driven mosaic style of information hub of the business. CIOs need to provide leadership to the organization from board level down to the business unit and IT organization, to ride learning curves, keep the pace of rapid changes, and unleash information power for improving business responsiveness and maturity.

Three Perspectives of Information Management Information is growing exponentially, and become one of the most invaluable business assets of the business. However, in many companies, the organizational modern data environment is fraught with inconsistency, redundancy, and multiple data and knowledge platforms, it causes confusion and decelerates business speed. Digital IT organizations should take an integral and holistic approach to manage the information cycle, and ensure that reliable information has been provided to the right people for making the right decisions at the right time. Here are three perspectives of information management.

How to Tap the Digital Power to Re-imagine the “Art of Possible” Enterprises of the future are increasingly exhibiting “VUCA” digital characteristics in various shades and intensity. Businesses are looking for new innovative methods and next practices for management of complexity, products/service delivery, quality improvement, capacity construction, and competency building, etc. Forward-looking organizations are tapping the power of digital to reimagine the “art of possible” and reach the next level of business maturity.

"CIO Master" Book Tuning: Information Management as a Threshold Competency of Digital IT Nowadays information is the lifeblood of the organization, all forward-looking organizations claim they are in the information management business, managing information and the information position of an organization is what ought to be called Information Management. Information Management is to make sure that the right information is in the right place at the right time and shared to the right persons for making the right decisions. IT is often the information steward of the business, and information management is a thresholding competency for running a digital IT.

How to Manage Information-Based Solutions to Thorny Business Problems? Information does not live alone but permeates to everywhere in the businesses, information potential directly impacts the business's potential of the organization. Today’s business problems are complex, logic or intuition only cannot solve those problems without sufficient information. Information Management is to make sure that the right information is in the right place at the right time and shared to the right persons to make the right decisions for solving the right problems timely.


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