Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation

Abstract

This guidebook is intended to assist executives and managers on effectively developing and maintaining an agency’s capability to provide mission-critical information when and where it is needed. The guidebook considers the importance of information to departments of transportation (DOTs) and the challenges of ensuring that good information is available for decision making, the components of an effective information governance strategy, how senior executives can assess their agency’s information-governance strategy and practices, and implementation of procedures and methods for effective information management. The report will be helpful particularly to DOT senior staff responsible for ensuring an agency’s access to information to support decision making