....there are aspects of this that have implications for RIM and the
retention of Organizational Knowledge/Intelligence.

SUCCESSION PLANNING

Young Americans by the thousands followed President Kennedy's
inaugural advice in the 1960s and asked themselves what they could do
for their country. Service in the federal government seemed like the
perfect way to heed the president's rallying call. Stoked by
passionate rhetoric of service to humankind, idealistic
twenty-somethings signed on for federal employment in droves.
http://www.governmentleader.com/issues/1_7/features/151-1.html


From the article:

*Leaving records.* Trinkle concedes that technology could be useful in tacit
knowledge transfer under a few circumstances. For example, videotaping
someone explaining how they did a particular task has been effective.
Communication technologies or other ways to tie people together through
portals also have been helpful, she said.


A very important part of every organization's records management program is
involvement in the employee termination/separation program.  This provides
an opportunity to ensure you not only gather all records the individual was
responsible for while they were employed there, but also allows you to
discuss with them any process/procedures they were involved in related to
information generation, management, retention, etc.

If you don't have a checklist, you should consider developing one and start
discussions with the Human Relations department to ensure you're "in the
loop" in the separation process.  And don't forget to ask the employee about
information on their desktop system, including passwords and information
about anything they are possibly retaining on a personal hard drive, or have
copied off to discs that may be scattered around their office.

These are examples of brochures on the Fed side of the equation (Dept of
Energy), one for staff employees, one for senior officials:

http://cio.doe.gov/RBManagement/Records/PDF/Brochure-Exit-Procedures-for-Departing-Employees.pdf

http://cio.doe.gov/RBManagement/Records/PDF/Brochure-Reminder-for-Senior-Officials.pdf
 http://cio.doe.gov/RBManagement/Records/PDF/RM05-01-ATTACHMENT2.pdf

Larry
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Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972

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