Information doesn't just provide a window on the business, increasingly it is the business. The global economy is moving from products to services which are described almost entirely electronically. Even those businesses that are traditionally associated with making things are less concerned with managing the manufacturing process (which is largely outsourced) than they are with maintaining their intellectual property.

Information-Driven Business helps you to understand this change and find the value in your data. Hillard explains techniques that organizations can use and how businesses can apply them immediately. For example, simple changes to the way data is described will let staff support their customers much more quickly; and two simple measures let executives know whether they will be able to use the content of a database before it is even built. This book provides the foundation on which analytical and data rich organizations can be created.

Innovative and revealing, this book provides a robust description of Information Management theory and how you can pragmatically apply it to real business problems, with almost instant benefits. Information-Driven Business comprehensively tackles the challenge of managing information, starting with why information has become important and how it is encoded, through to how to measure its use.

Robert Hillard是MIKE 2.0项目（www.openmethodology.org）的创始人之一，该项目为信息和数据管理项目提供一套标准的解决方案。作为一名国际性的咨询领导者，他为全世界范围的企业客户提供咨询服务。他是Deloitte（德勤）事务所的合伙人之一，在该领域有20多年的经验，重点专注于信息管理的标准化解决方案，率先在政府监管项目中采用XBRL（可扩展商业报表语言）以及倡议信息是商业资产而不是技术问题。你可以从www.infodrivenbusiness.com中获取更多关于他的信息。