Refer to the best-practice ‘exemplar sites’ listed at:

www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=infostrategies_exemplar These have been implemented through adoption of the JISC (1995) standards.

Select one or several of the institutions for which a published information management strategy exists. Now evaluate the published information strategy capabilities of the institution(s) against the elements of information strategy described in this chapter, i.e.

■ IM Theme 1: Information value

■ IM Theme 2: Information quality

■ IM Theme 3: Information security

■ IM Theme 4: Legal and ethical compliance

■ IM Theme 5: Knowledge management

■ IM Theme 6: Technology support

■ IM management approach 1: Structuring the information management function

■ IM management approach 2: Responsibilities

■ IM management approach 3: Information resource analysis

■ IM management approach 4. Information policy

■ IM management approach 5. Risk management