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21 DOT Strategic Information Management What Is Strategic Information Management? Chapter 2 reviewed the importance of information to DOTs for getting better results, the changing nature of the information landscape, and the challenges to improving how information is managed.
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22 Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation In recent years, the topic of information and its strategic importance to DOTs has been part of the conversation at AASHTO Leadership Forums. For example, at the 2013 AASHTO CEO Leadership Forum, several current and former DOT directors spoke about data and information (University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, 2013)
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DOT Strategic Information Management 23 meeting these needs through data gathering and information system improvements is costly. If a DOT's employees and partners were asked to develop a wish list of items to meet information needs and make associated system improvements, it is likely that the resulting list would be very long, with a price tag that would well exceed what the agency could afford to spend.
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24 Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation • Managing information throughout its life cycle to preserve its value (collection/acquisition, storage, retrieval, analysis and reporting, archiving or long-term preservation, and disposal) ; • Allocating resources for information management and improvement to maximize agencywide benefit; and • Monitoring the value added from information assets in order to validate the business case for those assets and decide whether to abandon, maintain, or enhance them.
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DOT Strategic Information Management 25 • Incentivizing good information management practices on the part of employees (e.g., checking data quality prior to distribution, storing documents in designated shared repositories, identifying sensitive information to be protected, etc.)
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