Information Asset Management

3What Is Preventing You from Governing and Managing Your Information Assets Well?

DOI: 10.4324/9781003439141-3

Introduction

In Chapter 2 we:

1. defined and described Information Assets;
2. discovered the value and vulnerability of Information Assets;
3. showed how Information Assets are managed; and
4. differentiated between Information Assets and Information Technology.

In this chapter we will:

1. describe our research into the barriers to managing Information Assets well;
2. present the findings of the investigation;
3. explain each of the identified barriers; and
4. identify the root causes of ineffective information management to be addressed.

We have argued that understanding what the organisation does and how it does it is critical to deciding what resources ...