A Skills Framework for the Information Age

[Steve Bennett]

I was pleasantly surprised to find that a Foundation called The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) has a definition of information management that I really like. I'm surprised because the SFIA is the brainchild of a seamingly ragtag group of UK Government, IT and commercial interests. My apologies (and compliments) if you are a member of of this group. "The overall management of the control and exploitation of all kinds of information, structured and unstructured, to meet the needs of an organisation. Control encompasses development and promotion of the strategy and policies covering the design of information structures and taxonomies, the setting of policies for the sourcing and maintenance of the data content, the management and storage of information in all its forms and the analysis of information structure (including logical analysis of taxonomies, data and metadata). Includes the overall responsibility for compliance with regulations, standards and codes of good practice relating to information and documentation, records management, information assurance and data protection. Exploitation encompasses the use of information, whether produced internally or externally, to support decision-making and business processes. It includes management and decision making structures to ensure consistency throughout the organisation, information retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation."



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