If I’m going to be completely honest, I would probably admit to using hyperbole more than once in my career. But to be fair to myself, I’ve only done it to make a point. And it’s always been done with an obvious layer of irony that makes it clear that whatever I said was said … More Defensible Disposition – The IT Challenge of Our Time
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – Pogo (by way of Walt Kelly) To make the Automated Information Lifecycle Management model work – and it must work – some serious challenges must be overcome by the three groups most affected by it: Records and Information Management professionals, Enterprise Content and Records Management … More The Automated Information Lifecycle Management Model: Part 3 – The Records Manager’s Challenge
Malcolm Gladwell is arguably Canada’s greatest living gift to Western Civilization (outside of Bob and Doug McKenzie, who are hilarious). In his seminal book of the same name, Gladwell defines a ‘tipping point’ as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point”. And unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere – or … More The Automated Information Lifecycle Management Model: Part 2 – Records Management at a Tipping Point
Here’s a brief conversation I recently had with a fellow records management professional: Me: “I don’t implement manual records management processes anymore because of where I live.” Other Guy: “Where do you live?” Me: “The 21st Century.” ___________________ Let’s start the New Year out by being honest with ourselves. Things are a mess out there. … More The Automated Information Lifecycle Management Model: Part 1 – Implications of the AILM Model
The explosive growth of information technology over the last three decades – and the corresponding tidal wave of newly created recorded information – has been both a blessing and a curse for those of us in the Records and Information Management industry. And yet, in many ways, we behave as if things haven’t really changed … More Welcome to NextGenRM.com