

File Size: 23070 KB
Print Length: 552 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (July 3, 2010)
Publication Date: July 3, 2010
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B0048EJW6W
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We live in the Information Age and this book pushes the edge from theory into practice. It's a treatise on Enterprise Information Management (EIM), the emerging IT discipline whereby the business and technology functions within an organization seek to manage information as a corporate asset. Ladley writes this hefty text for the purpose of answering - to himself and to his readers -- a fundamental question: "What makes information valuable? Not [merely] useful, but valuable?"Focuses on the practical requirements for this emerging discipline to accomplish the goal of turning information into an organizational asset that will make an impact on the bottom line: increasing corporate value; improving workforce productivity; reducing production costs; and, enabling executives to make better decisions. In short, this text explores how IT professionals can better tie together all of an enterprise's information assets and applications to help their executives and workforce work better, faster and smarter.While different practitioners view EIM from different perspectives -- some seeing it as a "data-centric part" of the firm's information management plan to help them get to the next generation of IT management--while others view it as simply another layer to integrate into the business process--they all seem to converge around the idea that "the EIM vision is for a truly integrated, holistic information resource to finally become a reality."The author, John Ladley, Principal of IMCue Solutions, brings a great deal of thought and experience to this book.
John Ladley indicates at the outset that the necessity of this text is threefold: (1) because the reader is already doing enterprise information management (EIM) to some extent but not very well, this book is intended to show how to manage information better, (2) since this book is an apology from the author following a 30-year information technology career during which time he and his peers have "absolutely done a terrible job making a business case" for addressing data and information as an asset, this book is intended to increase business understanding, and (3) because business attitudes toward data and content are stuck in a "quick-fix, I can do it myself and Information Technology are idiots" mode, this book covers the risks and challenges that can only be addressed after data and content are seen from a different perspective.While it is not made apparent from the Table of Contents, the 30 chapters preceding the 8 appendixes are divided into two parts, the first of which (Chapters 1 through 14) is intended to provide material to sell, understand, and validate the EIM program, and the second of which (Chapters 15 through 30) is intended to delve into the methods and artifacts needed to maintain EIM and have the business manage information. Whatever the case specific to this reviewer, perhaps due to Ladley targeting executive audiences, the text started making sense beginning with chapter 6 ("A Case for the Case"), the beginning Mark Twain quote of which sums it up: "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." In other words, "the EIM team needs to prepare to sell, so they can go and officially sell.
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