Ultimately, we have to serve our organisations. But there's one thing that I keep coming back to as the core problem, over and over again.Thanks for reading Meta-IRM! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The simple problem that we just have too much information in our organisations, and despite the fact that some of us are "information managers" now, we're only managing the recorded information - the records.
Absolutely! We need to stop with the mantra that 'all records are equal' and deciede where we will put our effort. I don't think we'll realistically ever be able to manage all the high-risk, high-value records that are created; but even less if we keep putting so much effort into low value records that no-one ever uses from the day they are created until we destroy them. The amount of work that goes into sentencing, managing, and processing the disposal - wouldn't that all be better applied to our high risk records that people really *do* need, and that are languishing, unidentified and unloved, on an old share drive somewhere? Or even just educating everyone on some commonsense titling guidelines?
Absolutely! We need to stop with the mantra that 'all records are equal' and deciede where we will put our effort. I don't think we'll realistically ever be able to manage all the high-risk, high-value records that are created; but even less if we keep putting so much effort into low value records that no-one ever uses from the day they are created until we destroy them. The amount of work that goes into sentencing, managing, and processing the disposal - wouldn't that all be better applied to our high risk records that people really *do* need, and that are languishing, unidentified and unloved, on an old share drive somewhere? Or even just educating everyone on some commonsense titling guidelines?