I highly recommend Artem’s book that addresses, as the title says, a data driven information management approach for AECO. I am currently using it to help initiate a number of discussions with various groups. I have found it a very accessible reference.

As well as a thorough overview of the history context of tools in AECO, data and introducing several key technologies the book contains a number of very useful diagrams, that outline the scope of data sources and end user artefacts, common database types encountered, applications working on that data and output artefacts in organisations or projects, with sample workflows.

It strikes me that these are the types of diagrams we need more of when developing and monitoring information strategies and contribute to BEP’s – defining the overall enterprise data model onto which the boundary for a PIM and AIM can be overlaid.