Laurie:

You are absolutely correct.  Records Management is the discipline that
encompasses all records (declared or not) in whatever format or media they
may be.

On 7/23/07, Carpenter, Laurie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen this new paper issued last week by Forrester Research?
>
> Abysmal: The State Of Retention Management
> Organizations Woefully Unprepared To Meet Today's Legal Requirements
> by Barry Murphy, July 17, 2007
>
> There was also a recent webinar on the topic. Here's the point of
> discussion for me. Forrester is using the term "retention management" to
> discuss managing all types of records & information in the organization.
> The premise is that not everything is an official "record" that is
> declared and put into a repository such as an ECM system. This new
> definition isn't sitting all that well with me and here's why:
>         + Traditionally, "records retention" is a SUBSET of Records &
> Information Management, thus to me, retention management is just a
> subset
>         + Doesn't the term "federated records management" (i.e. applying
> retention to all electronic records regardless of whether they're
> located in an ECM, on a file share, in a database, etc.) cover a lot of
> that anyway?
>         + Isn't the inclusion of "information" in RIM supposed to be
> including all information regardless of format or where it's at or if
> it's "declared"?
>         + Are we really going backwards by accepting the term "retention
> management"?
> I heard a recent webinar by an ECM vendor that discussed "retention
> management" as a method of applying retention to the files in the ECM
> that weren't declared official records. How many others are on this
> bandwagon? I am of the opinion, that an ECM system should be able to
> apply retention to its contents wherever they are at and I have been
> involved in several implementations that have taken this tactic and have
> been successful. If stuff's not in an ECM system the tools are either
> here or coming to apply retention wherever things are at and they are
> still records & information whether declared or not declared.
>
> Anyway, I wanted to get comments from the list about this new term. Are
> you on board? Do you want to stop the train?
>
> Laurie Carpenter, CRM
> Compliance Manager
> Koch Industries, Inc.
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