As Mr. Medina would say "Don't get me started."

We've had this discussion before on the listserve
- http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1306A&L=RECMGMT-L&P=R3863
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https://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1306A&L=RECMGMT-L&P=R2814&D=0&X=043B5A32946E742340

Sort of reminds me of Knowledge Management, which was the rage in early
2000's.  The ideas and concepts sounded very familiar to those of us
practicing records management.  I remember seeing demonstrations of
knowledge management "systems" at conferences.  I guess the term sounded
much more hip/sexier than records management.  Eventually knowledge
management faded into the sunset, for the most part anyway.

I tend to see the Information Governance phenomena in much the same light.
When you pull back the layers you realize that IG is based on  basic
records management principles, from my perspective anyway.  As Ginny points
out many of us apply the same principles no matter the type of information
or format.  I've worked for and with senior officials at all types of
levels and what I have found (in some cases the hard way) is the best
method is to keep things simple.  But then I am a simple guy I guess.
Sometime I think we try to over think what we do and how we explain our
field.

Bruce White, CRM, PMP
Virginia Beach, VA
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Sometimes the questions are complicated
and the answers are simple.
                       Dr. Seuss


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Jones, Virginia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Well said Don.  Speaking of the definition of Information Governance and
> whether Records Management is part of it or an overlap of it, I see this
> term being exploited and eventually made meaningless by the number of
> vendors jumping on the IG bandwagon to sell software.  Even some
> consultants (most without RM experience) are touting IG as the way to
> manage information - usually by purchasing some expensive software and
> accompanying experts to install and administrate it.
>
> I think some of the confusion lies in the scope of Records Management as
> perceived by practitioners and non-practitioners alike.  All the RM jobs I
> have had since 1966 required me to apply various RM principles to a variety
> of information (records, documents and data) not just to declared records.
>  Other RM professionals I know have mostly had experience in applying  RM
> principles to only declared records.   Others have had to deal with a
> little of both.  By allowing vendors to "define" IG through the application
> of products rather than principles, we run the risk of the term becoming as
> confusing as "records management systems" became a number of years ago.
>

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