All being well, my response will be one of the last on this subject.

Where either area reports really depends on a number of things:
- who has the clout to make it work?
- where is there budget enough to make it work?
- where are the strong personalities that will make it work?

I'm sure there are some point I missed, but the fact remains that there is a
common phrase in all of the mentioned points.....that will make it work.

The answer then is it belongs with any area of responsibility that can make
it work.  That place will be different from organization to organization.

I think we have beaten this one to death, so I hope this is the last of it.

On 7/6/07, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Would anyone like to put their 2 cents in on the following topic....
> >
> > Why a document control/records management/knowledge management
> > function...
> >
> > *...SHOULD NOT be placed under the information technology group???
> >
> > *...SHOULD be placed under the information technology group???
>
>
>
> While I appreciate some of our friends North of the Border are urging this
> discussion to end,  I'd like to make an observation.
>
> It was quite interesting the twists and turns the responses took to the
> original question posed.  I knew it was going to get rather thorny and
> opinionated, and decided to stay out of the exchange until it seemed to be
> over, and because I knew the original poster personally, (and was familiar
> with her situation) responded to her directly.
>
> Few if any actually seemed to respond to the original question though...
> it
> was about the DC/RM/KM FUNCTION and if it should report to the IT GROUP or
> not.
>
> Wasn't about RM vs.IT, wasn't about "who has the best Kung Fu", wasn't
> about
> why RM should report to IT or IT be subservient to RM, just about the
> reporting relationship of the "function".
>
> And no one bothered to ask for any clarification about that... whether the
> question was about the STAFF or the SYSTEM, or both.
>
> But the responses said a lot about people and a lot about the lack of
> communication between the two camps, and it also highlighted the need to
> invoke the "Rodney King Principle of Participation" here.
>
> I think a lot of people missed the boat.  With regard to the function, the
> most important thing is that it serves the needs of the organization in
> appropriately manging and providing access to their information assets,
> and
> where it reports organizationally should be determined by that.
>
> Larry
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