I can hear you saying “we develop Retention Schedules to determine how long we should keep Records generated/processed/retained by ourselves&rdquo
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This blog is the first part of a series that asks the questions, raises some issues and maybe answers a few questions about the use of a Records Retention Schedule. When your senior management said “we must have a Records Retention Schedule (RRS)” did you feel a sigh of relief?
Any reference to any living person or organisation, past or present, is entirely co-incidental** This week I have penned some thoughts relating to the application of Retention Schedules which, in reality, leads us to disposition - potentially a very "scary" place to be!?
This is as true in the ERM environment as much as in the paper-based one. The Retention Schedule, of course, takes into account applicable regulatory requirements
Big bucket retention schedules (100-150 record series/retention categories for an enterprise) are more cost effective to maintain and increase filing accuracy for both manual and automatic classification
Revising a retention schedule equates to running the gauntlet
In our consulting practice, we do not require ECRM system users to understand complex records retention schedules (RRS) in order to achieve records management compliance
Todd Johnson, CRM, recently queried the RM Listserv, " In developing our retention schedule, I'm coming across multiple instances where the business need to retain certain records exceeds the compliance retention requirements by many, many years (i.e. 3 years v
Organizations invest significant human and financial resources in developing and updating record retention schedules. What I don’t see is a follow-up effort to implement the retention schedule. In a recent project SMEs asked, “What’s the point of updating the retention schedule if retention is not being implemented, and documents are not disposed?
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