Apples and Oranges I think - The argument works great for active files and
I make it successfully all the time. But it's the stuff that accumulates
outside the normal controls that no one wants to go through, but doesn't
want to get rid of "just in case." That kind of stuff is easily ignored in
the normal course of business and is in a sense already virtually
destroyed.. But it's the fact that it remains retained and unindexed that
create that special legal liability where it seems only that boogey man has
any impact.

                           Christian Meinke, CRM
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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 08/24/2007
01:20:38 PM:


> We hear over and over again about the enormous expense of identifying
> and retaining information for litigation purposes.  Yet in reality, that
> same expense is extracted from organizations day after day in
> inefficient operations, inability to find needed information, excessive
> duplication and poor records practices.  Would we not be way further
> ahead to promote our ability to impact the bottom line on a daily basis
> as opposed to keep warning of the great big boogey man that my never
> darken our door?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Bill R
> -----------------------------------------

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