***The views expressed in this article are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer*** I recently had some thoughts as to why we "do" Records Management. I have been a practising Records Manager for some time now and I thought it would be useful to "go back to my roots" to validate my thoughts as to why we do Records Management and what key matters/steps should we consider. I should be grateful for your feedback on my two lists below - one being why we do Records Management and the other being what we gain/lessons learned from our programmes:- Why do we have Records Manement Programmes ?
***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?
Under System Administration: tasks, documentation, policies like disaster recovery, hardware and change management Portal Administration: the same, but instead of geographic locations, the appropriate way to document releases and upgrades are discussed And content management appears under the extranet. Application usage skirts information management and concludes with an open call for volunteers to be SharePoint administrators (!): Site provisioning Site management Storage quotas Document management Content management For inspiration, I turned to my own library of SharePoint 2007 manuals that I bought beginning that year
The good news if you are planning email management (EMM) for ensured retention and defensible disposition is that you don’t need to be perfect – you don’t have to perfectly satisfy your retention demands
With new, cheap SaaS email offerings available from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Google, and with ever more mobile users, it may be time to face some hard facts about email management. Law departments see email as a potential nightmare for e-discovery and litigation
Second, hasn't this person heard of a scanner and document management? Third, would a records manager go insane looking at a desk like that?
For this reason, we need to be fanatical about training and change management for any paper-lite initatives
Immediately following, I gingerly tiptoed towards electronic records management for all storage locations...In the past we’ve looked to this executive to be our sponsor for the electronic records management implementation
Coffee cups hold tremendous insight into information management (besides holding my favorite beverage)
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