For this in Asia or passing through, the Hong Kong Knowledge Management 
Society monthly event is scheduled for October 31 2006 at the IBM offices 
at Taikoo Place.  For details, visit: http://www.hkkms.org

Records management is widely perceived to be about warehousing paper in 
this region. As part of my ongoing efforts to raise awareness of the broad 
value of RIM, I will be presenting and updating a study conducted as pat of 
my graduate work.  That study examined the leadership inherent in under-
recognized populations--I picked RMgrs as a good example of often 
undervalued practitioners who must exert leadership despite positions that 
may not be "powerful", and looked at the factors that enabled them to 
influence their organizations.  I owe a debt of gratitude to many ARMA 
members, and others, who took part in Australia, Canada and the US.  

The Hong Kong presentation will focus on the RM functions that were found 
in participating organizations, revealing the great variety of program 
configurations that reflect (a) business environment and (b) internation 
grasp of RIM. 

I am very intersted in expanding this study, so welcome your views on the 
value of doing so for our comunity.  Feel free to write me off list at 
jobrien -at- irmstrategies.com .  We are also writing on the issues of 
navigating "culture" in the improvement of RIM and liability management 
while enabling KM and learning comunities of practice. Feedback/interest 
welcome!

In the mean time, if passing through Asia, we're presenting a case study on 
health care reform that integrates RM in Macau (Oct 26-28) and will be 
introducing a conceptual model for Knowledge Management that includes RM 
underpinnings (KMAP 2006 December 11-14, 2006), and will present on 
preservation issues for tropical climates at the PRISM conference, February 
2007.  Hope to see some old friends there!

Regards,
John

www.irmstrategies.com

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