Information management
The governance layer of ISO 19650 — specifying, producing, checking, exchanging and approving information across the asset lifecycle.
Information management is the structured, process-based management of project and asset information across the whole lifecycle of a built asset, as set out by ISO 19650. It is deliberately broader than model authoring: it is about how information is handled, not just how models are made.
It covers specifying, producing, reviewing, exchanging, approving and using information through both delivery and operation. In practice that means defining the information requirements, running the common data environment, controlling information containers, and keeping information quality and status under control.
The distinction worth holding onto is between information management and "doing BIM". Doing BIM is producing and using the models and deliverables; information management is the governance and control layer that coordinates that work and makes it reliable, authorised and auditable. ISO 19650 sets it out across its parts — concepts and principles, the delivery phase, the operational phase, and security-minded management. In Italian it is gestione informativa (UNI 11337's broader family is gestione digitale dei processi informativi).
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