Note:* Information Strategy acts as

Note:

* Information Strategy acts as the key player between the Academic Strategy and the Information System Strategy that provides the answers to what and where the information is required to support the primary tasks, or key goals, of Academic Strategy.

* The Information Technology Strategy is given as of secondary importance, and is concerning of applications and platforms necessary to fulfil the requirements of the information strategy.

* The Information Management Strategy is concerning of the way information services are organized for the different facets of the institution and policy issues on information.

* The Change Management or Implementation Strategy identifies the organizational change needed for the Information System Strategy to be successful with specific plans and budgets drawn into the process.

Taking the approach of information management into the handling of academic staff advancement programme, the accessibility, reliability, consistency, and relevance of data underpinning information systems are crucial to its use and effectiveness in the setting of higher institutions.As such, the nature of the programme requires the focus of information strategy should be on the management of internal information. Developing a

strategic information management systems, is important not only because of the importance of strategic decision making but to develop tools that provide good quality information that could be applied by the experts in updating their existing knowledge and fully-utilizing the information that is of relevant to the competitive environment.

As noted by Goodman (1993), the critical success factor for correlation has been found between the management success and effective information needs assessment, gathering and use. Therefore, relevant and timely information would allow for accurate decisions made by the managers.The needs to use information is not only in making decision and making sense out of the changes and development that occur in the external environment, but it goes further beyond, where it is also being used to generate new knowledge to be applied to the designing new outputs and services that would enhance the existing benefits offered and improving the institutional processes. Therefore, in the changing environment, the strategy for the forming of systematic information management has been noted as importance as the higher institutions realized the needs to strategically plan for the gathering, storage and dissemination of their information resources.