Having taught the AIIM courses around the world, the topic of whether department managers and users should be notified before records are destroyed, within an ERM environment, has only come up a few times. It leads to an interesting discussion! For other people, I wonder if this issue has come...
Many of us in records management have systematically had department management and staff sign off on records destruction notifications before records were eligible for destruction
Can you add to this list of barriers that have a chilling effect on record destruction? In future blogs we can share strategies for addressing the barriers
Getting people talking about records retention and records destruction is a step in the right direction under any set of circumstances
John Phillips proposed four new questions which generated an emerging practice for pre-approval of record destruction or deletion
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It's still one of my favorite articles explaining why retention planning and records destruction is a GOOD thing
Otherwise, many records will likely be retained many years longer than necessary and for some non-permanent records, destruction would never occur
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