Managing Information for The Organizational Goal: Relationship and Function

Data is important to assist organization with decision-making in order to achieve the organizational goals. However, the trustworthiness of data is questioned because of the vast amount of data produced. This paper proposes an approach to utilize information from operational data to support the organizational goal. The challenge is to convert this data into meaningful information. This is critical for all enterprises to remain competitive. The aim of this paper is to propose a model to emphasize the dependency relationship involve between the variables such as organizational goal, sub-goals, actions, data input and data output. The relationship is important to assist the development of data measurement, data analysis and data modeling to measure the level of the organizational goals achievement. The contribution of this paper may serve as a first step to understand the dependency relationship between data and organizational goals to utilize meaningful information for efficient decisionmaking.