Tag: Records Managment Profession

NARA Drops the DoD 5015.2; ‘Information Governance’ is Now ‘Data Lifecycle Management’; and ARMA Continues Its Support of the War on Records Management

May 3, 2022

There’s been a whirlwind of important activity in records management over the last couple of weeks. I can’t possibly discuss each new development in individual articles, so I am going to try to address everything briefly in this one post. Here goes. NARA DoD 5105.2 Endorsement Revoked First the good news. After a quarter of … More NARA Drops the DoD 5015.2; ‘Information Governance’ is Now ‘Data Lifecycle Management’; and ARMA Continues Its Support of the War on Records Management

The Moral Imperative to Understanding ‘Information Governance’

August 24, 2021

Last month, a federal judge found that errors by Air Force records managers were primarily responsible for a 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas that resulted in the murders of 26 men, women, and children – including a five year old girl. (This conclusion had already been confirmed a year and a half earlier … More The Moral Imperative to Understanding ‘Information Governance’

“Information Governance” and the Continuing War on Records Management

May 28, 2020

Six years ago this month I published this opinion piece in IQ – The RIM Quarterly Magazine for records management professionals in Australia and Asia (reprinted with permission): Records Management, Information Governance, and the Future of Information Lifecycle Management. Go ahead and read it. I’ll wait. At the time I published that article, my dire … More “Information Governance” and the Continuing War on Records Management

Records Management Functionality: A Brief History

August 29, 2017

As I’ve noted here a number of times before, records management is a centuries-old, well-defined professional discipline.  Records managers have always provided the same vital service: we manage recorded information, regardless of media or format, through its entire lifecycle – creation, distribution, use, maintenance, and disposition.   While the tools records managers use have changed considerably … More Records Management Functionality: A Brief History

On Why the Records Management Profession Must Endure

April 29, 2017

A former ARMA International Association President states during a keynote address that the disposition of records in a massive corporate data lake “doesn’t really matter.” A practitioner of ‘information governance,’ – purportedly the “expansion of traditional records management” – offers to make you a certified information governance professional “in just two weeks!” A career-long, low-level … More On Why the Records Management Profession Must Endure