Simply Managed: More on the Information Environment methodology

Ever since I've been doing corporate information management roles I've had this theory about how businesses could do all of this better. It's been evolving over the years, and I mean that I've finally got it sorted inside my own head now. The exciting thing for me, as mentioned previously, is that my job is actually a clean slate to run this whole thing.

I'm not certain yet how supportive the Administrator will be with it all, but I'm hoping to convert them that we want to do this process so we can really know where we are and contrive to get to where we wish to be. I've fleshed the previous image a little more, and really get some of the templates developed.Proposed construction of the Information Environment methodologyAs an aside, I hate methodologies, mainly because I've had some less than optimal experiences with people who seem incapable of operating without one, and pick any want of progression in a design on the "methodology" and not their own inability to see some exceedingly simple concepts. Maybe I should follow up with a better term. I'll get a think about it. So what is this and what do I hope to reach with it? In my experience, organisations make some less than optimal decisions about information systems, and thus how they should be spending their sentence and money in the information space. I've previously written around the problems with direction and IT making decisions on these things, and my aim is that having this construction in office will contract some of these problems (I know, I'm an optimist). The diagram shows the elements that want to be in order to keep good decision making, and an operating environment that is easily navigated by everyone involved. How many times give you started a new job and not known where to search for the info you want to do said job? You ask the masses about you and they say things like "you need to get admission to the X system, but I don't live who does that?", or "I don't recognize the right way, we only ask Mike to email us the study" or other such nonsense. Wouldn't it be gracious to pass into an organisation and take a roadmap of the information environment, what information is contained in which system, how to get admission to that organisation and how that information might link up with other datasets? As an information manager that is my utopia! If I could do that for an organisation then I would look like I had actually done my job. I consider that the plot is somewhat self-explanatory at this stage, but in future posts I aim to figure out each of the elements of the environment, to go into more item on the use they will bring in this utopia. As I mentioned, this has been going through my mind for over 5 days now, and I've really only just worked out how some of this hangs together and how the elements will bear the business decisions. I would really love any insights that other people might experience on this, maybe it's time to put the blog into my LinkedIn and see if I can get some traffic.