Overview
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 829: Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation assists executives and managers with developing and maintaining an agency’s capability to provide timely, high-quality, mission-critical information. The guidebook includes components of an effective information governance strategy, techniques to assess an agency’s information-governance strategy and practices, and ways to implement procedures and methods for effective information management. A PowerPoint presentation accompanies the report.
Strategic management is the well-established practice of assessing the current and likely future environment, setting a future course, taking action, measuring progress, and adjusting as needed. Strategic information management can be viewed as an adjunct to a strategic management process with a focus on information. The premise of strategic information management is that information is an asset that requires deliberate management in order to maximize value. Many departments of transportation (DOTs) have established a mission, vision, and goals and perform business planning based on this strategic framework, but strategic information management is still an evolving practice at DOTs.