***The views expressed in this blog are my personal views and not the views/thoughts of my employer*** Records Management Conformance Testing Programmes. Last week I mentioned Conformance Testing Programmes in my blog regarding the advantages of a good Records Management Programme. I would like to expand on what I think a good Conformance Testing could look like or, at least, some of the components of such a programme. In the context of Records Management why do we need conformance testing? The benefits of conformance testing are:- 1/ enables you to validate your Records Management 2/ provides an insight as to where you may need to focus additional resource 3/ may indicate where some further RM training is required 4/ gives you the opportunity of providing some "hard facts" to demonstrate the success of your Records Management programme So, hopefully having established conformance testing Is a good idea how should we go about this?
Policy and Procedure Management-A lot Like Dating Creation-Part I Although the main objectives are always pretty simple, policy and procedure management is a complicated task and often times can be difficult to fully grasp and understand
[preface: "Policy Management, A lot Like Dating" Creation-Part I] “The Next Step” Like in most healthy and sustainable relationships, the policy and procedure process needs to progress to the “next level
“Governance” and “Management” are sometimes used interchangeably
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I also have several sessions to deliver, including developing governance policies for Facebook and Twitter and a session on "Records Management in the Age of Twitter." 2
Story after story depicts folly after folly, and a lot of the time, the issues underneath are just like yours: Poor email management Failure to enforce policy Getting lost in the detail and forgetting the bigger picture Today's post (and others to come) draws on recent political silliness to make a key point: namely that it is critical to extend your policies to the people and parties you work with on the outside, and to figure out how to get them to follow your lead so their actions don't get you in trouble
DocRead for SharePoint is the only policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint and allows compliance professionals to distribute and track their policies and procedures
The Board measures revenues and expenses, as reported by Management and confirmed by Audit...The Board also measures its world view against reality. Management measures as well, but in more detail
1 Comment - However, I'm still not personally buying into the whole concept of applying the term "Governance" to the management of information as an asset
Is it something more than “Information Management,” and, if so, what?...The Gartner definition doesn’t say “who” does this and doesn’t explain how this is different from “Information Management.” It doesn’t mention legal requirements
4 Comments - I believe in the KISS solution, and accountability (governance vs. management) and really like your throught process on this subject
These are technology driven distinctions and should not be affecting business policy on information management. Read why here
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