In a recent webinar, the speakers, Steve Weissman , Greg Clark of OpenText and I, were discussing Information Governance and what all that means. But we thought it best to ask the audience what they thought Information Governance meant. Before you get absorbed in reading the replies, here are...
In a three-part blog series, we are taking a look at the value that records managers can bring to the implementation of EDRMS systems. In our final post, we provide suggestions on how to successfully apply information architecture (IA), metadata, and taxonomy to EDRMS. As we talked about last...
A while back I mentioned that I was going to try to write a book . Well, I’ve started it at last. Between losing my job and spending time at the cabin I’ve not really been motivated or focused. I’ve been spending my time looking for work, but also enjoying rural life at my...
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I’ve recently read again the post by Don Lueders in AIIM Expert blog space and the counterpoint by Mark Mandel. Having attempted to post some rather long responses to both I found there is a word limit, so I had to edit them rather severly. This editing resulted in some lack of logical...
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An Electronic Records Management (ERM) Program should typically form part of a broader enterprise-wide Records and Information Management (RIM) Program in an organization that includes management records of all media (hard-copy, electronic) enterprise-wide. A RIM governance structure should...
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This article is co-authored by Norman Weiner, SVP, Technology Services, Kaizen InfoSource. The holiday season is an opportunity to reflect on personal and professional accomplishments and challenges of the past year, and an opportunity to turn pledges into action items for the coming year. ...
When will we all become paperless? Never! Despite being a proponent of managing and storing records in electronic format (most of the time), I am continually amazed at the solid entrenchment of paper as an information creation, storage, and management media. Most of us making our living in a ...
I once read Albert Einstein had a closet full of the same suits, shirts, ties and shoes. He felt having to choose what to wear each day cluttered the mind with meaningless thoughts and decisions. However, I have recently read that this is not completely accurate. It appears he also had an...
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About 7 years ago I left the world of consulting and outsourcing management to join the wacky, wonderful world of being an in-house practitioner. I always loved the speed and variety of consulting, and knew I’d be back one day, but also knew I wanted to “walk the walk” for a...
2020: 35 million Zettabyte information available (1.2 Zettabyte in 2010), that means a lot! In 2020, days will always be 24 hours long and as anyone doesn’t agree to spend all his time to "browse" the internet, there is still a lot to do for controling the volume and the...