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Records management practice and the economics of alternatives.
One thing that is absolutely true about all people everywhere, is that people like doing things the easy and cheap way. Over the long term, the…
Mar 24
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Karl Melrose
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Being very careful making promises about the value of records management.
There are lots of assertions about the value of records management thrown around in records management circles. Mostly, they're untrue. Buying into them…
Mar 17
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How to remove archival compliance as a problem, and get adequate funding for your records program.
I think a dashboard illustrates the best way to show this. Dashboards tell us what’s important to us, and our executive dashboards tell our executives…
Mar 15
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February 2024
Records and value narratives
A narrative is a way of presenting a series of events that reflects and promotes a particular point of view or set of values. This is just a fancy way…
Feb 27
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Understanding the data layer for records people and where it will take us - if we embrace it
In records, we're inherently uncomfortable with data. That's a fact.Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my…
Feb 26
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Data-fit concepts of record - information, application-interface, record, data - in that order.
One of the things that I've talked about quite a bit over the last few years, is how I'm seeing the records and data management parts of the…
Feb 23
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The records quality principle everyone forgets
“Minimal extraneous information” Everyone tells their organisations to produce accurate, timely, complete (etc.) records, and then creates templates and…
Feb 21
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How much unique information is in your records?
30 years ago, copies got cheap (thank you electronic documents). 20 years ago, general knowledge got cheap, and even specific technical knowledge got…
Feb 17
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Unifying records and data - how to start
Personally, I feel like we all need to start by remembering why we're here. Why to we make a record? (ie. record data)Thanks for reading Meta-IRM…
Feb 13
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January 2024
Is records in its own way?
In every organisation, are people trying to do better. They want help.Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support…
Jan 20
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The biggest question I can think of in records (or why we might have it all backwards)
We get wound up about capturing records of decisions. But what about the records that cause decisions?Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to…
Jan 19
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The records skill that we're not using and that businesses want
As much as I want us to focus on operational matters and performance improvement - because I think that taking responsibility for performance puts us in…
Jan 17
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