CIO Wisdom II: More Best Practices

The Business Driving Force: Corporate Performance Management

The notion and role of “information management” within corporations is evolving from a tactical, transaction-integrity focus to a more strategic orientation associated with top- and bottom-line results and risk management. The driving forces behind this transformation (and the shift from data management to information management) include

• The inherent and intrinsic value of information from the business data consumers' perspectives.

• The need to improve the accuracy and frequency of information delivery to internal sources.

• The need to improve the accuracy and frequency of data delivery to external sources (driven by corporate responsibility legislation and other external forces).

• The complexity ...