Plan
What You Need to Know
- Information is a valued strategic business asset:
- Employees are responsible for managing the information they create and receive - including preserving, using or disposing of it.
- Existing legislation, regulations, and policies must be respected at all times.
- Information Management (IM) principles and practices should be applied from the earliest point in the business planning cycle:
- Early IM Planning integrates good IM into daily activities, making it easier to access information when it is needed.
- Consider what type of document you are creating. Ask yourself:
- What type of information do I need to accomplish my work?
- Who should have access to it?
- Does the information exist elsewhere and can I use it to reduce duplication and costs?
- Is this information of business value, enduring value or transitory?
- How long is it needed?
- How should it be stored based on its classification?
Tools and Resources
- To ensure protection – preparation, storage, handling, transmission and destruction, see: