Through Life Information Managment Strategy

1 Develop Improvments Targets

      2 Analyse Business and IT Options

            3 Analyse Cost and Benefit

                  4 Decide TLIM Strategy

Once the decision has been taken to explore shared data, the program will need to develop a Through Life Information Managment(TLIM) Strategy. The process for achieving this is shown in steps above. Throughout this staged process all investment of resources must be driven by, and add value to, the business goals of the program. The first task in the development of the TLIM Strategy is to translate the management vision of how the digital environment can bring benefit, into specific, measurable improvement objectives for the program over its life cycle. This should be followed by a careful examination of the business and IT environment in which the program will operate, and an assessment of the options for adding value from an SDE. Alternative options are then examined in relation to their ability to contribute to achievement of business goals, using cost/benefit and risk management techniques. The output from the Stage 1 is a decision on which Through Life Information Management improvement opportunities the specific program should adopt, and an outline concept of the Program SDE. These activities should be undertaken in parallel, with progressive improvement of earlier analysis based on findings from subsequent work.