INFORMATION RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT
IRM
WHAT IS IRM ?

 Is to design, inventory and control all of the resources

required to produce information.

 When standardized and controlled, these resources can

be shared and re-used throughout the corporation, not
just by a single user or application.
ANOTHER DEFINITION:

 Techniques of managing information as a shared

organizational resource.

IRM includes:
 Identification of information sources

 Types and value of information they provide

 Ways of classification, valuation ,processing , and

storage of the information
CLASSES OF INFORMATION
RESOURCES:

 BUSINESS RESOURCES

 SYSTEM RESOURCES

 DATA RESOURCES
BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING AN IRM
STRATEGY

 Identifies gaps and duplication of information

 Clarifies roles and responsibilities of owners and users of
information
 Provide costs saving in the procurement and handling of
information
 Identifies cost/benefits of different information
resources
 Actively supports management decision processes with
quality information
A MODEL OF THE ENTERPRISE

One of the important by-products of cataloging and

cross-referencing information resources , including how
it is organized and how it operates.
 OTHER BENEFITS INCLUDE:
 All information resources are controllable, permitting the
ability to design integrated systems and perform an "impact
analysis" of a proposed resource change.
 Simplified search of information resources for reuse.
Redundancy of resource definition is eliminated.
 Complete and current documentation of all information
resources, in an organized and meaningful way.
 Communications within the organization is improved since
developers and users would use standard and common
definitions for information resources, all of which would be in
standard business terminology.
 Techniques of Information Resource
Management are derived from the fields
that have been associated with the
Information Systems.
 THESE CAN BE LISTED AS FOLLOWS:
 Database design and development that is derived from
Computer sciences.
 Classification of data and information retrieval that is
derived from librarian and Information sciences.
 Document life cycle that is derived from Records
management.
 Information Systems and Technology Audits that is derived
from other Audit Systems like finance, communication,
energy etc. and Organizational psychology.
 Cost-benefit analysis and valuation of Information resource
that is derived from Finance and Business management.
TEAM NAMES :
 Ahmed Ibrahim Hussain
 Ahmed Alaa El-Azazy

 Amr Ashraf Ahmed

 Amira Atef

 Azza Elshafiy

 Mahmoud Mohammed Elbagory

 Marwa Mohamed Salah

 Mohamed Elsayed Mohammed