Emerging Industry Overview: Information Management Systems
Industry Snapshot
The field of information management systems, like so many industries based on computer technology, is characterized by consistent change. Whether as the result of improvements in hardware and its underlying software, the evolution of the World Wide Web as a medium of information delivery, or fundamental shifts in thinking about the role and use of information in business and industry, information management and the systems used to implement it function in an environment that is rarely the same from one day to the next.
Information management is the means whereby information is...