Inventory, inventory and inventory.

You need to know what information the organization has, where it resides 
(hard drives, network drives, CD"s, floppies, DVD's etc), the value it 
contains and who the owner is.

Once you have this information, you can start to build your file plan. Use 
the paper file plan as a guide and build on it.  Do not expect this to be 
a quick scenario (has been 5 months for me) and often difficult to get 
feedback from mid-management on file structure.  Consider a functional 
structure which crosses departmental structure.

Look at the AIIM website for guidelines...they were helpful for me.

Good luck on this, 

John Annunziello
Manager, Records and Information 
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
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"Information is a corporate, strategic asset that needs to be managed"

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