Chapter 7Leveraging Information Asset Management Standards and Approaches

In the mid-1990s, MIT’s Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte introduced the metaphor of our collective shift from “processing atoms to processing bits” as a means of explaining the transition to a digital economy. However, we shouldn’t dismiss everything we learned about processing physical things as we immerse ourselves in all things digital, particularly how to manage them effectively.

We have already examined the barriers to managing information in the enterprise and how to leverage physical supply chains as a model for managing the information supply chain. In this chapter, we will explore the management of other corporate assets to build an approach to information ...

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