Enterprise Information Resources Planning Based on Information Lifecycle View
Xueying Wang · Journal of Intelligence · 2011
Chinese enterprises are facing challenges of complex technologies and management.How to allocate and manage information resources,further develop and utilize information resources,use IT effectively,realize IT value,and align IT with business is the goal of any business and the key issue of business operations.Developing,utilizing and sharing information resources are the starting steps,and also the final ends of enterprise informationization,as well as the goals of enterprise information resources management(IRM).Enterprise information resources planning(IRP) is the foundation of IRM.It is the key factor of the successful informationization.Enterprise IRP requires the theory guidance and methodology innovation.In this paper,after the analysis of IRM situation in Chinese enterprises,a framework called Enterprise Architecture Based on Information Lifecycle(ILEA) which is based on Enterprise Architecture and combined with information lifecycle is put forward,and the basic components of ILEA and ILEA development methods are designed comprehensively and systematically.