William Saffady, Ph.D, FAI

Author: William Saffady, Ph.D, FAI

William Saffady, Ph.D., FAI, is a New York-City-based information governance (IG) and information management (IM) consultant, providing analytical services and training to corporations, government agencies, not-for-profit entities, cultural institutions, and other organizations. A prolific researcher and writer, the former long-time professor at Long Island University is the author of more than three dozen books and myriad articles on a variety of IG and IM topics; his most recent books published by ARMA International are U.S. Record Retention Requirements: A Guide to 100 Commonly Encountered Record Series and Information Governance Concepts, Requirements, Technologies. Saffady can be contacted at wsaffady@aol.com.

Summary – “Retention of Accounting Records: A Global Survey of Laws and Regulations”

Written by William Saffady, Ph.D, FAI on November 4, 2019. Posted in Compliance, Financial, Legal, Retention.

This article summarizes a report published by AIEF on June 3, 2019. Additionally, the article is included in Information Management Magazine, ARMA-AIEF Special Edition, which will be available for download in mid-November. A printed version of the...

Big Bucket Retention: Objectives, Issues, Outcomes

Written by William Saffady, Ph.D, FAI on December 7, 2018. Posted in Electronic Records Management, Records, Records Management, Records Strategy, Retention, Retention Management.

Fifteen years after its introduction by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration as a strategy for improving federal agencies recordkeeping performance, the big bucket approach to record retention is in common use. This article summarizes...