The Beginning and The End of Information Management

I have a book in progress called The Beginning and The End of Information Management.  It may never be finished but it helps me know what I think.  

Read the draft here.

I sometimes post draft extracts below:

• Introduction

• Part 1: The Beginning of…
• TBATEOIM: Point to the data people
• TBATEOIM: The 30 Year Drift
• The Fallacy of the Business Value of Data
• The Fallacy Of Business Versus Technical Metadata
  • It takes two, or three, or four
  • Collaboration Is Evil

• Part 2 Valuing Information
  • Value information, not information management
  • Valuing Information Versus Information Valuation
  • Singularity of sorts
  • The No ICT Strategy Organisation

• Part 3: Information Strategy, Is Strategy
  • What, If Anything, Is A Data Strategy?
  • One Big Discussion, Or Part Of Many Discussions?
  • Patterns Of Information Innovation
  • Market Stereotypes
  • Decision making optimisation

• Part 4: IM Frameworks
  • Of processes and frameworks
  • I.T. Has The Current Approach And Business Has The Target
  • Loosing sight of the data, still
  • An IM Framework Versus Our IM Framework
  • Real IM Framework, at best
  • The Real Work Streams – Aligning
  • Your IM Framework

• Part 5 Information Management Competency Centres
  • Who Does The Work?
  • The Linchpin IMCC
  • Different Types of information management competency centres
  • Linchpin Projects You Can Relate To

• Part 6 Data Governance
  • Proactive Data Management
  • Purpose Of Data Governance
  • Three View Of The Operating Model
  • Ultimate Data Accountability Models
  • Operating models versus information governance
  • Data Ownership Approaches
  • Reference Architecture For DG
  • Principles for working with projects
  • New skills required
  • Obligations To Each Other

• Part 7 Managing I.T. Departments
  • Embracing Shadow I.T. Because You Have To
  • Breaking through IT as mandatory service provider
  • Real Spend Control

• Part 8 Enterprise Information Model
  • Why an enterprise information model?
  • But, Why? Because You Are
  • One Meta-model, Or Many
  • Overview – High level
  • Components
  • Meta-model – Super Simple
  • Contextual Dependancies

• Part 9 The End of…
• About this series