The planning, budgeting, control and exploitation of the

information resources in an organisation. The term

encompasses both the information itself and the related

aspects such as personnel, finance, marketing, organisation

and technologies and systems. Information Managers are

responsible for the coordination and integration of a wide

range of information handling activities within the

organisation. These include the formulation of corporate

information policy, design, evaluation and integration of

effective information systems and services, the exploitation

of IT for competitive advantage and the integration of

internal and external information and data.