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The gains records and information management can make by listening to IT.
Whether we like it or not, records management is an information technology field.
Jun 30
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Karl Melrose
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Valuing information and records management practices
Practices are only valuable as far as they produce something that our organisation values.
Jun 23
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Karl Melrose
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The venn diagram that determines success in information and records management.
I teach a course in executive engagement for RIMPA global.
Jun 13
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Karl Melrose
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The venn diagram that determines success in information and records management.
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The information side of work and records management
If you sit down with a half way to competent manager, give them a hypothetical business process and ask them how they'd organise it, they'll generally…
Jun 11
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Karl Melrose
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May 2025
Problems we can actually solve in Records Management, and what an opportunity to solve them looks like.
I think there are only three problems that we can actually solve - everything else is a subset.
May 28
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Karl Melrose
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Problems we can actually solve in Records Management, and what an opportunity to solve them looks like.
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The universal principal for organising anything that records management ignores
Things should be organised for the people who need to use them.
May 25
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Karl Melrose
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Separating arrangement for record keeping and classification for records management
In the custodial era, we classified records - we had a file number, and we had a system in which we recorded the classification of the file.
May 23
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Karl Melrose
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Separating arrangement for record keeping and classification for records management
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April 2025
Records management is undermined by a lack of theory about record making
It’s a strange blindspot.
Apr 24
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Karl Melrose
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Records management is undermined by a lack of theory about record making
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February 2025
The must and the should in records management
We like to talk about ‘must’ a lot in records management.
Feb 21
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Karl Melrose
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Building records management around reliable things that people want
A friend once shared a quote with me that he attributed to Paul Keating.
Feb 8
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Karl Melrose
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Records Management as professional management, and what that means.
ISO standards refer to Records Management as a ‘field of management’ and the late, great, Peter Drucker referred to management as ‘the organ of society…
Feb 1
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Karl Melrose
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January 2025
Records management and the maturity journeys which are viable vs the ones we take
This started out as a very succinct post, got complicated fast, and I’m not entirely happy with how it is expressed - but it feels like it needs the…
Jan 30
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Records management and the maturity journeys which are viable vs the ones we take
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