Whose Information Is It Anyway? An Argument for Information Stewardship

<p>Information is an important resource for businesses and government with information quality influencing decision quality and highlighting our need to manage our information well: as a resource. Information Resource Management (IRM) has as its goal the management of information as a resource but has not been implemented with the level of success expected. Problems with the implementation of IRM are indicated by the presence of redundant or inconsistent data inability to share information across systems and difficulty finding the information on systems. We propose that these difficulties are related to behaviors linked to perceived ownership of corporate information by organizational sub-units. To evaluate the proposition we performed a case study on an organization to see if we could identify the presence of problems and the presence of the ownership behaviors. The case study revealed the presence of both problems with information management and behaviors related to ownership.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>