On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Stephen Smith <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> " And that to me is one of the biggest issues I (and others on this
> list) have with IG - it is as you say "cobbled together."  Almost as if
> someone decided to throw a bunch of darts at a wall and those that stuck
> were deemed under the IG umbrella.
>
> No wonder there is a lot of confusion about what IG really is (and
> isn't)..."
>
> Colleagues:
>
> I was trying to bite my tongue but I can't any longer.  The list provided
> earlier by Robert of the 28 IG best practices sounds like best practices we
> have all been trying to implement for a very long time.  From obtaining
> executive sponsorship all of the way down to the end, haven't we all as RIM
> professionals seen this before.  Now instead of Records Managers being the
> leader of this initiative, we are now just one face of many that falls
> under the new IG umbrella.  It seems to me that IG is in some form or
> fashion devaluing records management by not having us sit at the head of
> the table.  It's strange to me especially when reading #4, IG is a key
> underpinning for a successful records management (RM) program.  So until IG
> showed up a few years ago all of our RM programs were not successful?
>
> I am very confused about IG as I think many others are.
>


Fear not, Steve... it isn't YOU that's confused.

It's simply lipstick on a pig, but it doesn't remove the smell of pork.

And don't get me wrong, I'm a big fancier of pork... I've been around it
for 43 years now. =)

Larry

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Larry
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*----Lawrence J. MedinaDanville, CARIM Professional since 1972*

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