Information Resource Planning and Management: An Interactive Model

Information Resources Planning and Management (IRPM) is an evolvingdiscipline that helps managers assess, allocate and exploit their information assets for business development. It draws on the techniques of information science (libraries) and information systems (IT related) as well as the process of business management. In this paper, we propose an event-driven interactive model IRPM to effectively provide managers with valuable information and background processes to keep, plan and manage the valuable information. The structure of the proposed model is introduced, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)-based information resource planning andallocation is described, components and processes of the model andinteractions between them are presented, and the benefits and obstacles of the model are analyzed.