Information Asset Management

14Why Is Justifying Investment in the Effective Management of Your Information Assets So Difficult?

DOI: 10.4324/9781003439141-14

Introduction

In Chapter 13 we:

• discussed how to determine your most valuable assets;
• discussed how data, documents, content and knowledge can be put to work and leveraged to mitigate risk, reduce costs, increase value, drive benefits and ensure ethical corporate behaviour;
• revisited what is required to establish the foundations from which Information Assets can be leveraged; and
• showed some simple case studies of how Information Assets have been put to work with significant, measurable, positive business impact.

In this chapter we will:

• describe the justification domain;
• show what good and bad look like; ...