INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. The planning, budgeting, organizing, directing, training, and controlling associated with the creation, maintenance and use, and disposition of information as well as with related resources, or assets, such as personnel, equipment, funds, and technology. Includes data processing, telecommunications, and records management. See also DATA PROCESSING, OMB CIRCULAR NO. A-130, RECORDS MANAGEMENT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

Interactive Relationship Managers. Infomediaries that collect user data based on surfing habits of ISP customers and tailor marketing/promotional programs according to what those customers might like or need.

See integrated resource management (IRM).

Integrated Risk Management. A philosophy that provides a firm with the ability to understand and address any risk in any area in the most effective way.

Integrated resource management. The identification and consideration of all resource values, including social, economic, and environmental needs, in land use and development decision making. It focuses on resource use and land use and management, and is based on a good knowledge of ecological systems, the capability of the land, and the mixture of possible benefits.

Integrated Resource Management. Multidisciplinary approach to managing cattle more efficiently and profitably; management decisions are based on how all resources are affected.

Information Resources Management. The process of managing information resources to accomplish agency missions. This term encompasses information itself, as well as related resources, such as personnel, equipment, funds, and information technology.

Investor Relationship Management. In the alternative assets industry, the process through which the company maintains communication and distributes information about the company, its funds, and its financial performance to existing and potential investors.

Information Resource Management

Internet Relationship Management - a variant of CRM where all the functionality is delivered across the web. Probably created by Octane Software.

Integrated resource management. Syn: resource management.

Abbreviation for integrated resource management.