But why put pleasure in parenthesis?

On 4/25/07, Bruce White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On 4/24/07, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Imagine this, after 4 years of trying to hammer home the point that
> > management of information over it's life cycle is something that we've
> been
> > doing for decades, "....panelists agree that finding the RIM peer in an
> > organization should be a top priority for IT managers" !!!
>
> Last year I had the "pleasure" of participating on a similar panel
> that SNIA put together as part of their San Diego conference.   What I
> found interesting then was that most of the questions were directed to
> us (Paula Johnson was the other RIM panelist); the storage folks are
> really struggling with how to effectively store and manage
> information.  The vendors that sold them the ILM concept (along with
> the storage devices and software) have made it sound simple to
> implement.   What the they are finding out is (the hard way) is that
> it's not quite straight forward as they are being lead to believe.
>
> This is an excellent opportunity for us as records managers to market
> what we as a profession can bring to the table within our
> organization.  If you don't have a relationship with you IT
> department, send this article to your IT manager (or CIO) as a way of
> introducing yourself and offer to help find a solution (or solutions).
>
> John Montana spoke today at the ARMA Houston's Conference, which as
> usual, was great and worth the admission price.  A couple of the many
> points he made stick clearly in my simple mind; we as records managers
> need to become risk takers.  We must be willing not only to speak up
> and but talk the talk and walk the walk by be problem solvers.  This
> is our chance to do both.
>
> --
> Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP
> Houston, TX
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