Linda,

The reasons range from the time needed to tag it, the change management 
issue(disipline in the process) and the fact that our IT dept feels 
Enterprise search and Sharepoint will in general take care of DM.

My point which is seen as a marketing speech is as follows:

What do we want to do ?
   Manage the companies records & Information.
        - Enterprise level
        - All media
        - Consistently
        - Goal of "Putting the Right 
Information,............................................"

 
How do we want to do it.
        -   Mange in one enterprise-wide solution (tool/tools)
               Notice I didn't say KEEP it in 1 solution only manage it

Value of doing this.

        - Consistent repeatable/defendable process
              - reduced amount of competing/siloed processes
              - better reuse (KM)
              - Improved search
         - We're keeping these records & information anyway might as well 
be consistent about it
         - Consolidating multiple media into a single knowledge base
 
         AND BY THE WAY- if we do this we'll be 
          - Maintaining compliance with mandated regulations & laws
          - Lowering enterprise/employee risk and its consequences
          - Maintaining shareholder trust & value
 

          AND as an ADDITIONAL BENEFIT Lowering costs
          - Legal discovery costs
                 -  show slide on discovery savings
                 - Nike vs Beaverton example or any of dozens of examples
          - Operational
                 - RIM  (slide statistics)
                 - Employee productivity increases (Show slides)
                -  IT infrastructure
                     - managing virtually 
                     - standardized storage
                    -  standardized formats
                     - less redundancy


Steve Petersen CRM
Records Manager
Rockwell Collins Inc
319.295.5244

"Bringing Order Out of Chaos"

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