Enterprise Information Management in Practice: Managing Data and Leveraging Profits in Today’s Complex Business Environment

Introduction

Every book starts with an idea. The idea behind this book Enterprise Information Management in Practice was to write a book, largely from a practitioner’s standpoint. An analysis of some of the existing literature concerning enterprise information management showed mainly two trends, scholarly books and technical books. The scholarly books were written by academicians and were consumed in different information management courses in business schools or other master’s degree programs. The second trend, technical, written by architects, was of course directed to architects and technical project managers. A third category, a practitioner’s perspective is what resulted in this book. The idea was to write in a way in which students as ...