The Value of Digital Information DIV-index, A Corporate Asset
Companies have in the past decades changed fromtraditional manufacturing organizations into serviceorganizations. For these service organizationsinformation and competence have become animportant resource. The traditional view oninformation is that an employee use and search forinformation to reduce uncertainty for their decisionmaking. Even though information is strategicallyimportant for organizations, information is not valuedin any way. Hence, this thesis aims to valueinformation in terms of the utility it brings to theorganization.The conclusion is that four factors are important whenvaluing information in terms of utility. These factorsare quality, relevancy, accessibility and findability. Byusing the four factors the Digital Information Value(DIV) ? index was created. The DIV-index can beused for calculating a before and after value for animplementation or for evaluate maintenance of adigital information tools.