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The Information Management Body of Knowledge (IMBOK) is a management framework that organizes the concept of
"Investing in Information"
Bytheway, A., 2015
Investing in Information: the Information Management Body of Knowledge
Geneva: Springer
Supporting website for the IMBOK Community
Information Management
Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...
in the full context of business and organizational strategy, management and operations. It is specifically intended to provide researchers and practicing managers with a tool that makes clear the conjunction of the worlds of information technology and the world at large.
The IMBOK framework
The IMBOK comprises six 'knowledge' areas and four 'process' areas. The knowledge areas identify domains of management expertise and capability that are each distinctly different to the others, as shown in the figure. The process areas identify critical activities that move the value from the left to the right. For example: * ''Projects'' transform ''Information technology'' into ''information systems'' by engineering technology components into systems that deliver the required functionality * ''Business change'' management deploys ''information systems'' in ''business processes'' so as to improve the performance and capability of those business processes * ''Business operations'' deliver the ''business benefits'' expected by stakeholders * ''Performance management'' ensures and oversees the delivery of benefits appropriate to an organization's strategic intentions.
Origin
The IMBOK was a major deliverable out of a research project at theUniversity of the Western Cape
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is a public research university in Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa. The university was established in 1959 by the South African government as a university for Coloured people only. Other un ...
in South Africa, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establis ...
. It has been adopted as a standard Information Management and Information Systems course text in South Africa, Europe, North America and elsewhere. A monograph describing the IMBOK was made available on the World Wide Web in 2004, but it has been withdrawn and republished in an extended form in a book:"Investing in Information"
Bytheway, A., 2015
Investing in Information: the Information Management Body of Knowledge
Geneva: Springer
Community
The Community web site at IMBOK.ORG has lapsed and the content is now available at IMBOK.INFO.See also
*Information management
Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...
* Records management
Records management, also known as records and information management, is an organizational function devoted to the information management, management of information in an organization throughout its records life-cycle, life cycle, from the time of ...
External links
Supporting website for the IMBOK Community
References
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