There are lots of assertions about the value of records management thrown around in records management circles. Mostly, they're untrue. Buying into them without understanding how far beyond records management practice we have to go to deliver them really hurts our credibility in our organisations, and if we can't be credible about the value we can deliver, no one will trust us when we start to assert that we can deliver incredible value.
A lot of different threads here - and I want to call out two that aren't your main point:
"we automatically got a catalogue of the records in the form of the directory structure." - this is a fallacy that we all tend to fall for in RM, but have you SEEN some of our directory structures??? it's not the metadata silver bullet we wish it was.
My main question - how does everyone feel about RM being reduced to "functional description with retention management"?
A lot of different threads here - and I want to call out two that aren't your main point:
"we automatically got a catalogue of the records in the form of the directory structure." - this is a fallacy that we all tend to fall for in RM, but have you SEEN some of our directory structures??? it's not the metadata silver bullet we wish it was.
My main question - how does everyone feel about RM being reduced to "functional description with retention management"?