Information Management

I see a natural hierarchy in which information management falls. Going from the highest level of abstraction to the lowest, this is the way I see it. Knowledge Management, Information Management, File Management, Document Management, Data Management. This may not seem like it represents an operational hierarchy, but does represent a tactical hierarchy. Knowledge represents the ultimate end of data elements and in an operational context, it may be that a single data element is identified and leads directly to useful operational knowledge. However, in the tactical context, that data element will be maintained and managed in the context of an individual document or file, a file structure, and a larger information environment in which knowledge is produced and utilized.