For as much as good RIM is about retaining information to meet compliance obligations, to facilitate productivity and to generate competitive advantage, it’s also about disposing of records, non-records and other transitory bits and bytes in a timely manner to reduce risk, free up storage space and keep people from having to trip over it on their search for information of value. It’s the latter bit that gave me pause. In traditional RIM theory, the four pillars of value that information is considered against to determine record status are: legal, financial, operational and historical. I’m worried that perhaps we aren’t spending enough time and effort considering historical value as we develop retention schedules and make disposition decisions
A lot of litigation remains underway in this area of the law. Email has value – but not all email has the same value
If we only concern ourselves with what is declared as a record we miss out on the opportunities to leverage the value of information. If a record is just data, that is zeroes and ones that is read by software a certain way, or interpreted by humans as different than a nonrecord, then we must next ask ourselves the question of what is information and how does a record have informational value. Information, in its most basic sense, is that which informs
” add in terms of value to the process?...If we can remove a low value decision from the process, don’t we owe that to our organization?
16 Comments - If you chose to define exactly what a record is, then the note that you threw away, will be classed as short term information with no ongoing value, and will be excused as information disposed of under Normal Administrative Practice (NAP)
These were the high value, high risk documents you were probably already managing in paper according to your retention schedule
Time is what can transform the ephemeral, transitory content in our systems of engagement to something of value in a system of record
No sane person can argue the value and validity of the cloud...I’m not daft enough to think that cloud computing doesn’t have value or is not a valid approach to take
Instant access to comprehensive medical information on a patient is clearly of enormous value. That’s why 69% of US physicians use EMR and the EMR market has grown to $24 billion last year, according to Bloomberg
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SOE’s and SOR’s need to be merged in order to achieve true Enterprise value.” (That’s why I came up with SOR/E’s)
So, here’s the logic from an Information Governance perspective: Here’s the logic from a Records Management Perspective: So, what value did that extra step add for anyone?
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