Creating and Managing Enterprise Information Assets
Course description
The discipline is for students of the master's program.
Total hours - 228. Number of classroom hours - 72, including 24 hours of lectures, and 48 hours
of practical training. Total hours of independent work – 156.
The course assumes knowledge of technical disciplines students.
Course objective:
Studying discipline is aimed at students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the
management of information assets of the enterprise. Identification of assets and their contents,
accountability, and assessment of the assets.
It also discusses the methodology of risk assessment and cost information assets.
Course content
1. Introduction to the Information Assets:
The study of the definitions of concepts. Making sure the perception of terminology. The
study of different types of information assets.
2. How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program:
Definitions and concepts. Overview of a data governance program. The data governance
business case.
3. Data management:
Information as an independent asset. The problems of valuation information assets.
Methods of valuation.
4. Maximizing The Enterprise Information Assets:
Review the content information assets. Overview of the provisions the accounting
methods governing the establishment and treatment of intangible and information assets.
Meeting the challenges to formation of the content of information assets.
5. Information and Data structure design. Model development:
Study of approaches to structuring information assets. Review business cases showing
examples of implemented projects to develop the structure information assets.
6. Information assets as a part of business value:
The study of the impact of information assets in the value of the business. The risks,
threats, and methods of reducing and eliminating their influence. Ways to increase
business value by improving the quality of IT assets.
7. Data storage and data cost:
The impact on the quality and value of the information assets of the company by the cost
of creating and storing data. Meeting the challenges for evaluating the real cost of storage
and data processing in the company.
8. Business planning model of creating information assets of the enterprise:
Review of processes for the preparation in planning IT assets. Methodological basis for
planning IT assets. Interconnection between information assets and all services of the
company that uses common data. Business case to develop business plan for information
asset growing process.
Classroom hours
Lecture
Practice
Home
work
1 Introduction to the Information Assets. Part 1.
2
2
0
2 Introduction to the Information Assets. Part 2.
2
2
0
2
2
4
2
2
4
2
2
8
2
2
8
0
6
8
0
6
8
2
2
16
2
2
16
11 Data storage and data cost. Part 1
2
2
16
12 Data storage and data cost. Part 2
2
2
16
13 Information assets risk assessment.
2
4
16
14 Planning for the growth of information assets
2
4
16
0
4
16
0
4
4
24
48
156
Theme, content
How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an
Effective Data Governance Program. Part 1
How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an
4
Effective Data Governance Program. Part 2
3
5 Data management.
6
7
8
9
10
Maximizing The Enterprise Information
Assets.
Information and Data structure design. Model
development. Part 1
Information and Data structure design. Model
development. Part 2
Information assets as a part of business value.
Part 1
Information assets as a part of business value.
Part 2
business planning model of creating
information assets of the enterprise. Part 1
business planning model of creating
16
information assets of the enterprise. Part 2
15
Total, hours:
Control questions
1. What are information assets?
2. What is governance of information assets?
3. Most used methodology of governance information assets.
4. How to design governance program?
5. How to deploy governance program?
6. How to sustain governance program?
7. The ways to increase the value of information assets.
8. The problem description of valuation information assets.
9. Information and data structure design examples.
10. Data governance and business value.
11. Quality of information assets governance program and business risks.
Methods of evaluation
The current control is provided on the practical classes. The form - control work.
Homework of the course
Homework issued to students during the course. Homework provides a detailed analysis. On the
homework the student prepares a report in electronic form; estimated time for homework and the
preparation of the report is no more than 2 weeks (usually from 11 to 13 calendar days).
Introduces students to the reports by the teachers; Homework evaluated on a 10 point scale.
Failure to comply with the deadlines and rules for reporting (included in the text of the job),
automatically results in the evaluation of "0" ("Fail") for the homework.
Final test: Control of knowledge is carried out in the oral form.
The structure of the exam grade by educational discipline:
Type of work
Contribution to final
evaluation (%)
Contol work
50
Practice
30
Final test
20
Grading
Table of compliance assessments on a ten and a five-point system
On a scale ten-point scale
1 - unsatisfactory
2 - very bad
3 - bad
4 - Satisfactory
5 - very satisfactory
On a scale five-point scale
unsatisfactory - 2
Satisfactory - 3
6 - well
7 - very well
8 - almost perfect
9 - Excellent
10- Brilliant
well - 4
Brilliant - 5
Readings
1. Data Governance. How to Design, Deploy, and Sustain an Effective Data Governance
Program. John Ladley. 2012 Elsevier Inc.
2. Data centers and assets of the company. Sukhov R., Maltseva S. 2015 HSE.
3. Амзараков М.Б., Сухов Р.Р., Исаев Е.А. «Модульный центр обработки
данных: Целостный взгляд.» Бизнес-Информатика. [2014] № 3 (29). С. 7–14;
4. 2013 Cost of Data Center Outages. Ponemon Institute. 2013. White papers.
5. 4 Principles for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership. By David R. Merrill, Chief
Economist, Hitachi Data Systems April 2015
6. Risk Assessment Handbook. The National Archives. 2011.