Information Management in NATO (Part One)

How NATO Defines and Organizes Information Management, Strategies and its Point of View

Absztrakt

As the level of technology is developing, more and more organizations realize that information is a critical resource. The special resource management where information itself is the resource, is called Information Management. Organizational level management systems can be tremendously complex and must be based on massive scientific and leadership pillars. That is why it is useful to have a closer look at what a multinational organization, namely the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), thinks about its own information management using accessible unclassified information. Thus, this paper aims at providing an overview of the information management system in NATO. The author is currently carrying out broader research and this paper is part of the scientific work titled “Possibilities and technics of the information management in the Hungarian Defence Forces supported by information technologies”. This study is a small but important piece that must be put into the puzzle of the aforementioned research. Since information management is a huge and important topic within NATO, one single paper is unable to give a sufficiently detailed description of the subject. Hence, the publication has been divided into two parts. The first part – this paper – concentrates on the theoretical background and the strategic level of thinking. The second part will provide details about how rules and regulations work in practice.