What is it about?

Information systems collect and disseminate information within organizations based on information technology, while management systems formalize business processes following the standards requirements. Since management standards proliferate, their integrated adoption into a holistic overarching system has emerged as an effective and efficient approach. This chapter aims to explore the potential synergies among information management and integration. To this end, a focused literature review is conducted and survey data on the relevant standards evolution are processed in order to provide the information and management practitioners with a clear and oriented depiction of the available norms and their adoption possibilities. Furthermore, a framework is proposed consolidating management sub-systems into an integrated structure including information management and supported by information systems. Finally, the concept of internalization of management systems standards is understood in association with information and knowledge diffusion within an integrated management system.

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Why is it important?

It is made clear, that integration requires the intertwining of management principles and practices across the organization in an internalized mode. Therefore a more sophisticated way is needed to manage information and documentation and meet standards’ requirements and audits’ specifications. However, there is a link missing from the chain connecting the incoming data to the manageable information resources.

Perspectives

This book chapter introduces a framework to illustrate the integrated management system’s synergies with the information management standards’ adoption. Furthermore, it implies that the subsequent adoption of a knowledge management sub-system into an integrated platform already encompassing information management may multiply the integrated management systems synergistic effect on business performance.

Dr Maria Gianni
University of Macedonia - Thessaloniki - Greece

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This page is a summary of: Integrated Management Systems and Information Management Systems, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8841-4.ch011.
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