Information Assets are real business assets and we must treat them as such.
There is a good English adage that if you only have a hummer, every screw is a nail! That’s pretty much the situation when people try to explain what an Information Asset is. The economist will try to define and calculate the value, the IT professionals will explain how to store and use data securely, the legal people how to protect it and so on. But an Information Asset is more than the sum of its parts...