And what does round headed cabbage and art museum tours have to do with RIM, one asks?  These posts got me thinking about the decisions we have to make in our profession.  Risk management is based on mitigating risk - something that takes resources and money.  Since very, very few organizations can afford to mitigate all risk, they must determine their risk tolerance and expend their resources where it will do the most good.  Therefore, we determine what records are critical to our business processes and protect those (set a standard for round-headed cabbages rather than all cabbages) and we expend our remaining resources in mitigating as much risk as possible to the essential and important records not on the vital (critical) records list.  However, there is no one rule for what is vital.  Each organization must determine its critical business processes (and supporting records and information) based on its business mission, scope and strategy.  Thus one business may believe the Boticelli is more important than the ceilings and another may determine that the ceilings are as important as or perhaps more important than a painting of Venus.

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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