Hamburg, Germany

Information Management

Wirtschaftsinformatik

Bachelor's
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Information Management at IU International University of Applied Sciences

Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: computer science
Qualification: Bachelor
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
dual studies dual studies
University website: www.iu.de/

Test: check whether Information Management is the right major for you!

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Check if Information Management is the right major for you!

1. Are you interested in how data and information are collected, organized, and made usable?

2. Do you enjoy thinking about how organizations govern data, ensure quality, and maintain compliance?

3. Are you curious about metadata, taxonomies, and classification systems that help people find and use information?

4. Do you want to learn how to design systems (databases, content platforms, knowledge bases) that support efficient information flow?

5. Are you aware of or interested in privacy, security, and ethical issues around information use?

6. Do you enjoy using tools or analyzing workflows to improve how knowledge is shared across teams or organizations?

7. Are you comfortable combining technical understanding (e.g., databases, systems) with communication and user needs?

8. Do you enjoy managing projects that involve multiple stakeholders relying on shared information?

9. Are you motivated to help organizations turn raw data into actionable knowledge?

10. Do you enjoy keeping up with evolving information technologies and adapting systems accordingly?

Definitions and quotes

Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts. As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.
Information Management
Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposition through archiving or deletion.
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Information
It used to be said that information is power. As w:Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of the board of the New York Times Co., rightly says, "Information is now ubiquitous. Power is understanding."
Martin Kaiser, in INFORMATION: The news will be exciting and so will the medium Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 January 2000.
Information
In 2007, for the first time ever, more information was generated in one year than had been produced in the entire previous five thousand years - the period since the invention of writing.
Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, Sander Duivestein, Me the media: rise of the conversation society, VINT editions (research institute of Sogeti), 2009, p. 270.
Management
Administration is the most obvious part of government; it is government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself.
Woodrow Wilson, "The Study of Administration," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2 (June, 1887), pp. 197-222.
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