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We’ve all been there. Just when you think your records management program is going relatively smoothly, a big change lands in your lap screaming, “Deal with me!!!” Whether the change originates outside the RM department, such as with corporate moves and mergers and acquisitions, or from within, such as migrating to a new records management system, […]Read More
Each month, TAB publishes informative guides to help our readers tackle a wide variety of records management challenges. This week we showcase our reader favorites – the most popular resources this past month from our records management resource center, our SlideShare account and this blog.Read More
In the minds of our corporate colleagues, records management isn’t always associated with hard-dollar business outcomes. Despite a growing understanding of the valuable contributions made by records management teams, our colleagues still don’t immediately think, “Wow, those RIM folks saved us a ton of money last year!”, Or, “Thanks to the RIM department we totally […]Read More
In last week’s blog post, we imagined what would happen if the primary measure of RIM performance was the quantity of documents defensibly disposed of in a given year. As we pointed out, this would put a lot of pressure on records managers to polish up their records retention schedules. Without an up-to-date and accurate retention schedule, records would either be kept around too long, or they would end up being destroyed prematurely. However, a retention schedule is only one component of an effective records retention program. Without the proper processes and oversight in place, your retention schedule will end up as nothing more than a dusty volume taking up space on a shelf.Read More
In a great blog post on the AIIM website, one of the regular contributors, Don Lueders, CRM, CDIA, made the case for a new measure of RIM performance. Why not simply base it on the quantity of content defensibly destroyed each year? In a business environment in which paper and electronic records are both on the rise, we think Don’s suggestion has a lot of merit. It also raises an interesting question. How would records management change if defensible disposition became the primary RIM performance metric?Read More