> "Carol E.B. Choksy" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RAINdribble: Everyone claims to do information governance
> 
> Everyone claims to do information governance
> 
> Lawyers, software companies, trade associations, etc. claim to do
> information governance, just like everyone claims to do eDiscovery.

Carol, you have an opportunity now with ARMA to guide the promotion of the records management profession.  If hundreds of records managers started posting articles, promoting the records managers as the gatekeeper for the corporation.

Displaying corporate organizational charts reflecting that Information Governance is a block located beneath the records manager in chief as just another one of those functions that must be managed by the records manager.

					Records Management

Knowledge Management	         Information Governance     eDiscovery


If everyone is writing articles that frame this point of view, then Legal will look at these erudite essays and say “Hey, this is how it should be done.”

ARMA needs to realize, Legal does not want this function.  It is more work and responsibility without additional income or funding.  Information Technology Managers are even more committed to avoiding this function. So you have two departments that are happy to park information governance under your responsibility. 

But, you need a dedicated PR firm to be out there posting these articles supported by the records managers with writing skills to support the effort. Gartner is the shill for the IT/Big Data manufacturers, and you have the "Ponemon Institute”?? which I cannot figure out. 

But I assure you the "FIRELOCK Institute” formerly known as “His Vaultness”  has totally researched this; and,  if Records Managers, ARMA and the RECMGMT Listerv all jump on this wagon you can push that Information Governance right down the corporate pyramid where you will be its manager. (The FIRELOCK Institute has finally given up on the ICRM being anything but the promotional arm for making more people become CRM’s. )

Or you can take the failed approach that some in the past tried, grab ahold of a new title (e.g. Knowledge Management or Information Manager) like the infamous sky hook and hope it will raise the profession up.

The simpler approach is to utilize the ARMA membership to bury the media in articles about the information governance as a subset of records management and...." it will be so!”  

Legal still thinks IG is beneath them and IT thinks IG is boring and anything that does not require bandwidth is old news to them. Once they held up IG to their ear and did not hear a hum, they lost interest.

When ARMA starts spending some money on promoting the profession then average salaries will jump $5000 per year and any new title that jumps up in the future can also be placed neatly in the pyramid right below “RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION."

For the astute records manager, when Human Resources asks you to annually provide your job description, start listing information governance as a subset of your responsibilities.  Be sure to place e-Discovery under your management as well. 


Hugh Smith
FIRELOCK INSTITUTE, AKA HIS VAULTNESS, AKA VAULTMAN
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