The explosion of information technology moves relentlessly ahead; far faster than the typical organization's ability to assimilate and effectively manage and exploit it. Internet and Intranet technologies have redefined the information environments. This demands a redefinition of information management (IM) and data resource management (IRM).

This seminar is about two things: (1) Survival, and (2) "Thrival" (1) Survival  not of individual information professionals  but of the enterprise itself. (2) "Thrival" means not only do those organizations who practice the principles outlined here survive, but they will also thrive: increasing market share and profits while reducing costs and time-to-market. This seminar describes the core competencies for information management (IM) to make the Knowledge-Age transition.

Upon completion of this seminar, you will be able to:

• Describe the information resource paradigm that integrates enterprise data with hyper object datatypes
• Describe the virtual enterprise paradigm
• Describe IM and IRM objectives for integrating hyper objects and enterprise data
• Describe distributed IRM roles in the decentralized I/S organization within the virtual enterprise
• Develop information policy to enable management of hyper objects
• Develop effective data standards for hyper objects
• Describe an integrated approach for modeling hyper objects such as for Web sites and Information Kiosks
• Describe techniques for implementing integrity and security for cyberspace data
• List major challenges and techniques for managing disparate data
• Describe steps to transition to information management for the 21^st century