Inmagic Best Practices Study
By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 06/15/2006
Inmagic Inc. released on May 17 a white paper, Be Ready: Best Practices for Managing Critical Information Assets (www.inmagic.com/news/press_room
/white_papers/BeReady-WP.pdf), offering seven themes for effective management that it claims to have identified through interaction with “hundreds of organizations.” Defining research asset management as “the combination of people, processes, and technology by which an organization manages the high-value internal and external information assets that its professionals at all levels use to gain insights, plan, and execute,” the seven best practices are:
- recognize the downside of the status quo
- actively manage research assets
- avoid information “silos” and promote sharing by providing a single, consolidated view of information, available 24/7 via the web
- control access via security and “permissioning,” not be segregating materials
- maximize usage and value by tailoring the system to the needs of end users
- keep the research asset management system up-to-date and comprehensive
- deliver some “early wins” to rally internal support for research asset management efforts.
