Information Asset Management

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12What Is Information Asset Quality and Why Is It So Important?

DOI: 10.4324/9781003439141-12

Introduction

In Chapter 11 we discussed:

• the impact of organisational politics and human behaviour on the information culture of the organisation;
• Information Asset ownership behaviours; and
• Information Asset sharing behaviours including
  • information hoarding that leads to information landfill, and
  • information hiding that leads to information bunkers.

In this chapter we will describe and explain:

• the attributes of data and information;
• what good and bad quality Information Assets look like;
• why high-quality Information Assets are so important;
• how to measure the quality of Information Assets;
• the causes of poor Information Asset management ...