The resources we use delivering and storing information should be commensurate with its value. The planning, budgeting, manipulating and controlling of information throughout its life cycle. Virtually every activity or process we participate in requires some management of information. Human beings aren't capable of looking at a million pieces of information randomly scattered with no form or structure. In this age of explosive technological progress, our automated delivery systems are rapidly outstripping our traditional protocols for exchanging information.
Information systems are more than just technology.
They include everything associated with discrete sets of information, including the people and money devoted to that set. For the purposes of this discussion, information systems may be considered as functional area systems, like the Personnel Data System or the Global Command and Control System. Processes include the actual transformations and activities performed and the mechanisms that act on information, including both technology and people. Processes are subdivided by activities and tasks which may be mapped in great detail. Procedures are the rules that govern processes.