IRP/IRM methodologies

Michael R. Wood
1984 Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition on - AFIPS '84  
Within the next 10 years, the social, psychological, behavioral, and managerial disciplines necessary to develop and support information resource planning (IRP) and its subsequent management (IRM) will be integrated into most corporations. The assimilation, and therefore, impact of these nontechnical disciplines will completely reshape the way organizations evaluate, acquire, and use technologies available to them. More specifically-although the EDP industry has traditionally been the primary
more » ... ovider of information processing technologies-the most crucial challenge facing EDP professionals today is to broaden their exclusively technical focus to include the new disciplines and methodologies that support organizational requirements as a whole. This paper will focus on defining what information resource planning is, who should be involved in the process, and the implied impact of IRP and IRM on organizations.
doi:10.1145/1499310.1499354 dblp:conf/afips/Wood84 fatcat:clvwxittlfhxzbg3mowf2olboq