Sitemap - 2021 - Meta-IRM

Why it might be time to forget function, activity, transaction (aka Why everyone in the records and information management community needs to learn information architecture).

Please stop using DIKW - here's why I'm asking and here's what to use instead.

How to get your CFO and CEO to support your records management program

Reflections on RIMPA SA/NT Panel on Executive Engagement

How to connect records management and business management effectively

The records training we really need to give managers

Why we have to be responsible for the quality of the records we manage, and what can be done when we are.

The connection between mental models and success in records management

How many of our "information assets" are actually "information liabilities - and what does it do to our credibility if we confuse them?

Language matters - Putting records and high quality business outcomes back together.

The discipline vs. the role of records and why we have to stop it crushing the profession

What Woolworths and project management can teach us about the iron rules of classification

Where I think the next round of major improvements in records management effectiveness are going to come from

When does records practice stop being proven, and how do we know?

What it means to be a user in records management, and what it means for professionals to have users.

Why we need to define records again (yes really, hear me out - it’s a coherent argument, I promise)

How to set records strategy.

The first thing a records team should invest in

Quantifying the value that records management adds to the organisation

The best records systems are built by...

One question to ask if you need to understand why record quality matters.

How to solve the money problem in records management.

What stories do we need to tell about records?

Service management of records to avoid questions about "why records is so expensive."

Why you have to be focused on record quality if you want a seat at the digital table.

Where are the narratives in records management systems?

Why you've got problems with information outside records systems (all records systems, not just EDRMS)

Why doesn't records charge back?

Why do we talk about managing information as an asset when most of our information isn't?

What is actually important in records?

Value producing elements of Records Management vs the costs.

How useful is the evidence that we are keeping?

Why do we bother with "compliance is mandatory?"

A records strategy has to underpin your digital customer service strategy.

Evidence Based Non-Custodial Records Management

We can't tell business units that they are the custodians of their records and then tell them that they're not their records.

How can records be a credible supplier of service if it doesn't talk about its impact on organisational performance?

The function that should be part of every records team

The executive value of a records management program.

The two places records management programs are most likely to fail

The business value of electronic record destruction

A lesson from Peter Drucker on why records are important

Does your classification scheme describe or prescribe?