This article was sent to the list by Peter last week: 

 

http://bit.ly/sL021b

 

However, its title does not really do justice to the content of the
article. It's actually a pretty good discussion of information
governance (albeit from the IT perspective).

 

While it starts out with what records managers might consider "fightin'
woids":

  "While legal and RIM struggle to keep their records retention schedule
up to date, they have no robust mechanism for communicating this
schedule to IT. And even if they manage to publish an updated schedule,
it is typically built around the now ancient concept of one paper form
and one location for a record in any given class with no conflicts
between country laws and no costs associated with choosing the longest
retention period where several regulations apply. In the face of this,
IT, with its ever-changing, business-driven, complex and often global
information storage structures and the same information existing in
hundreds or thousands of places, has no way to confidently identify
relevant information and ensure it gets retained or disposed of.
Modernizing and unifying data governance processes based on information
as digital data managed by IT, not RIM, is essential to reducing IT
costs, improving regulatory compliance and ensuring a proper e-discovery
process."

What follows is actually a pretty good discussion of how IT, Legal, and
RIM need to work in concert for better information governance.

Might be worth a read if you passed it up the first time because of its
generic title.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Gary Link, CRM
Corporate Records Manager
227 Fort Pitt Boulevard  Pittsburgh  PA  15222
TEL 412.765.1700     www.astorino.com <http://www.astorino.com/> 
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