For those amongst us who prefer to occassionally delve into the theoretical,
there is an interesting piece on CMSWatch today which considers the future
of Enterprise Content Management and along with it the future of Records
Management.  

The article is called "ECM is dead - Long live ECM!"  and it can be found
here: http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/140-Whither-ECM

Some of the comments about Records Management include:

"In theory, the Records Management community should have all the answers to
enterprise compliance challenges. But the sheer volume of content now being
generated and circulated challenges traditional RM methodologies to the
core." ... And ...

"Frankly, few firms want to spend money on Records Management at all, and
the idea of ramping up their spending tenfold or more to address the volumes
of content sloshing through the enterprise is unlikely to materialize. A
watered down, simplified approach typified by basic but relatively effective
retention structures is more likely to gain hold, particularly as firms come
to realize that paper isn't going away, e-mail and IM also present a big
problem, and one way or another everything needs to be managed for its
legally defined lifecycle. It's not pro forma RM, but it's better than the
typical, "create->use->forget about" model currently practiced."

I'd be really interested in what this community thinks about those issues in
particular the advent of 'watered down' records management.  

Cheers
David.

David Gillespie | CTO | 80-20 Software

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