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Even decades into the Information Age, accounting practices yet fail to recognize the financial value of information. Moreover, traditional asset management practices fail to recognize information as an asset to be managed with earnest discipline. This has led to a business culture of complacence, and the inability for most organizations to fully leverage available information assets. 
This second course in the two-part Infonomics series explores how and why to adapt well-honed asset management principles and practices to information, and how to apply accepted and new valuation models to gauge information’s potential and realized economic benefits. In addition, the course will enlighten students on the critical but confounding issues of information ownership, property rights, and sovereignty. The course will wrap up with an overview of emergent roles for the information-savvy organization of the 21st century.

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What you will learn

Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.
Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.
Articulate the challenges, pitfalls, and paradoxes regarding information’s role as a something owned and controlled.
Lay out new and emerging organizational roles for treating information as an actual business asset.

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strategy
Accounting
Data Analysis
Big Data
Innovation

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Instructor

Douglas B. Laney

Visiting Professor, and Innovation Fellow at West Monroe Partners

Accountancy and Business Administration

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4 Courses

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Course Orientation

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 5 min), 8 readings, 1 quiz

3 hours to complete

Module 1 Managing Information as an Asset

3 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 96 min), 2 readings, 9 quizzes

10 videos

1-1 Applied Ecosystem Concepts11m1-2 Applied Sustainability Concepts8m1-3 Information Supply Chain (And Networks?)5m1-4 Information Asset Activity Primitives5m1-5 Information Maturity Model10mTraditional Asset Management Approaches Part 18mTraditional Asset Management Approaches Part 26m1-7 Generally Accepted Information Principles5mInterview with Andrew White13mInterview with Mark Beyer (Supplemental)20m

2 readings

Module 1 Overview10mModule 1 Readings and Resources10m

9 practice exercises

Lesson 1-1 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-2 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-3 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-4 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-5 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-6 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-7 Knowledge Check5mLesson 1-8 Knowledge Check5mModule 1 Quiz30m

Week2

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Module 2: Measuring and Accounting for Information

4 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 58 min), 2 readings, 10 quizzes

8 videos

2-1 Why Measure and Value Information?6m2-2 Dimensions of Data Quality4m2-3 Introduction to Information Valuation Approaches2m2-4 Foundational Valuation Models for Information Assets5m2-5 Financial Valuation Models for Information Assets5m2-6 Juxtaposing and Combining Valuation Models5m2-7 Information on the Balance Sheet?5mInterview with James Price22m

2 readings

Module 2 Overview10mModule 2 Readings and Resources10m

9 practice exercises

Lesson 2-1 Knowledge Check5mLesson 2-2 Knowledge Check5mLesson 2-3 Knowledge Check30mLesson 2-4 Knowledge Check5mLesson 2-5 Knowledge Check5mLesson 2-6 Knowledge Check5mLesson 2-7 Knowledge Check5mLesson 2-8 Knowledge Check5mModule 2 Quiz30m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Module 3 Privacy, Rights, Ownership, and Sovereignty

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 32 min), 2 readings, 7 quizzes

6 videos

3-1 Key Legal Concerns and Questions about Information2m3-2 Data Ownership and the Law9m3-3 The Asset Properties of Information5m3-4 Owning the Usage of Information2m3-5 The Ownership of Personal Information4m3-6 Internal Information Owners6m

2 readings

Module 3 Overview10mModule 3 Readings and Resources10m

7 practice exercises

Lesson 3-1 Knowledge Check5mLesson 3-2 Knowledge Check5mLesson 3-3 Knowledge Check5mLesson 3-4 Knowledge Check5mLesson 3-5 Knowledge Check5mLesson 3-6 Knowledge Check5mModule 3 Quiz30m

Week4

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Module 4 Roles and Organization Structure

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 21 min), 4 readings, 5 quizzes

6 videos

4-1 Fresh Hot Roles for the Info-Savvy Organization3m4-2 Emerging Roles for Monetizing Information5m4-3 Emerging Roles for Managing Information as an Asset4m4-4 Emerging Roles for Measuring Information as an Asset2m4-4 Infonomics Course Wrap-Up1mGies Online Programs3m

4 readings

Module 4 Overview10mModule 4 Readings and Resources10mCongratulations!10mGet Your Course Certificate10m

5 practice exercises

Lesson 4-1 Knowledge Check5mLesson 4-2 Knowledge Check5mLesson 4-3 Knowledge Check5mLesson 4-4 Knowledge Check5mModule 4 Quiz30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM INFONOMICS II: BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND MEASUREMENT

by BIJul 24, 2022

I am so excited to have learnt so much on coursera. i would absolutely recommend.

by LMJun 22, 2020

Very interesting course for all interested in Information, and how to evaluate information value.

by JSJul 5, 2019

Great course! Highly recommended for people who want to understand data valuation.

by NJan 20, 2021

I'm not got my certification of my course completion

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Infonomics II: Business Information Management and Measurement

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Instructor

Douglas B. Laney

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Course Orientation

Module 1 Managing Information as an Asset

Module 2: Measuring and Accounting for Information

Module 3 Privacy, Rights, Ownership, and Sovereignty

Module 4 Roles and Organization Structure

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Instructor

Douglas B. Laney

Offered by

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Start working towards your Master's degree

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Course Orientation

Module 1 Managing Information as an Asset

Module 2: Measuring and Accounting for Information

Module 3 Privacy, Rights, Ownership, and Sovereignty

Module 4 Roles and Organization Structure

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