The information organisation

The article reviews the evolution of information resource management. By outlining the key lessons learned from experience to date, it discusses the main issues to be faced by practitioners in the coming years, if they are to respond successfully to the business challenges in the 1990s. Before addressing the above, the article briefly deals with one or two definitions. Information resource management (IRM) is an American term (coined in the late 1970s), used to describe the application of management principles to the use of information as a corporate resource. In Europe-corporate data management-conveys similar meanings, although admittedly the latter does suffer from several limitations, for example, `data´ is only one of the objects to be managed and the function is not always at corporate level