What the CIO Thinks About the Electronic Records Management Project by , for

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The best CIO I ever worked for did several things very well: taught the organization how to plan strategically; bridged tactical IT implementations into organizational strategy; empathized with... read more

Just Because Something Is Not An Enterprise Information Asset Does Not Stop It From Being A Liability by , for

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I recently blogged about how information governance has the role of reducing risk of indictment.  One of the questions I have been pondering lately is to what extent should those in informa... read more

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE: THE TERM THAT CAPTURES IT ALL by , for

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Another terrific annual AIIM conference has just concluded. I had the privilege of presenting a session with Rob Howley to a packed audience on Records Management in the Cloud, heard many engagi... read more

How Far Would You Go.. by , for

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  … To Achieve Perfection In Your Information Management Initiatives? Over a good few years, I have been fortunate to have experienced a variety of Information Management... read more

NARA Proposes New General Records Schedule by , for

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The current General Records Schedule (GRS) from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is based on subjects and document types/format.  Earlier this week NARA released a pr... read more

The bold future of decentralized RIM becoming centralized via software by , for

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If an office wants to go to paperless or if they are creating electronic records at a rapid rate it is inevitable that their records management practices will become decentralized.  The mos... read more

Are You A Records Manager Or Information Governance Officer by , for

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With electronic records being everywhere, it is hard to pinpoint who exactly is the records manager.  I'd like to propose that it is more important that we move away from the title of r... read more

Conceptual Storage (and other ERM pitfalls) Is Just As Big A Problem As Physical Storage by , for

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In my last blog post I talked about the collapse of an offsite record storage location in the DC suburbs.  Even though tragedies like this happen, it does not mean that electronic records i... read more

Electronic Record Disposition – Still Controversial by , for

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Organizations have invested millions in technology to manage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured information; in retention schedules to establish retention periods for records; and in... read more

Electronic Record Disposition; The RM Perspective by , for

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Most RM professionals expect to apply the same collaborative pre-approval workflow used for disposing of boxes of physical records stored off-site to electronic records according to recent... read more