How to prove the value of records to your organisation

Measure it.

Why do we keep waiting for the next crisis to make records seem valuable?

Or the next executive who "gets it?"

Why not just get out there and measure it?

Then when the crisis hits, who will the organisation want to fix it? Those people from records who are already doing such valuable work.

And what happens when the next executive lands who doesn't get it?

"You don't have to get it bozo, here's the value of records in this organisation, we've measured it."

When we measure things, we reduce the chance that our performance is going to be judged based on someone's experience of records in the past.

So we should all be measuring.

So we can be resourced based on our value to the organisation.

Or we can wait for someone who "gets it," and get resources based on "how much they get it."