Records Management – ARMA Magazine

Moving Forward: The Audit, Conversion, and Destruction of 14 Million Paper Documents — A Case Study

Written by Karoline Correa on January 27, 2025. Posted in Audit, Capture, Collaboration, Digitization, Disposition, Document Management, Documents, Electronic Records Management, Imaging, Project Management, Records, Records Management, Retention, Retention Management, Scanning, Uncategorized.

A leading global investment firm initiated a project called Digital Forward to facilitate relocating their New York City office and in doing so transitioned to a digital-first workplace, where efficient, searchable digital records would replace paper...

Unlocking Dynamic Records and Information Management

Written by Kimberly Johnson on April 22, 2024. Posted in Document Management, Information, Information Governance, Information Management, Records Management, Records Strategy, Retention, Retention Management, Uncategorized.

Records and Information Management (RIM) is a business component vital to organizational success, yet it is rarely an organization’s top priority. Underpinning RIM practices at an organizational level is imperative to meeting legal requirements...

Records Managers—Become the Easy, Adjustable, Reliable Tool of the Organization

Written by Tom Corey on June 19, 2023. Posted in Collaboration, Information Governance, Information Management, Records Management, Uncategorized.

Records managers, compliance, finance, information technology, legal, and privacy departments are all concerned with the proper management of information. For records managers, though, their primary focus is the proper management of information. For...

Build and Sustain Your Records Program with a Records Management Playbook

Written by Jesse Wilkins on September 26, 2022. Posted in Records Management, Records Strategy, Uncategorized.

What if your organization’s entire records team won the lottery today and quit? What would happen to your records program? How long would it take your organization to rebuild the team from scratch? If you had a records management playbook in place,...

Top Information Governance Principles for your Mailroom

Written by Eric Lynn on July 4, 2022. Posted in Capture, Digitization, Document Management, Information Governance, Records Management.

Do information governance principles apply to your organization’s mailroom? Mail has typically been a perfunctory function aligned with other physical office services, but for many organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted mail to a critical—and...

Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

Written by Kimberly Johnson on April 28, 2022. Posted in Archiving, Communications, Disaster Recovery, Documents, Physical Records Management, Records, Records Management, Uncategorized.

In the field of records management, there are logistical and large-scale projects that can challenge and perplex RIM professionals. These undertakings require planning, communication, documentation, and collaboration to be successful. In some instances,...

The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

Written by Tom Corey on April 18, 2022. Posted in Data, Data Management, Data Storage, Disposition, Records Management, Retention, Retention Management, Uncategorized.

It is essential that your organization’s records retention schedule is compliant with the data protection requirements in the jurisdictions where your organization operates. This task may seem overwhelming since jurisdictions around the world are...

Records Inventory 101:

Written by Lisa Morris on April 11, 2022. Posted in Disposition, Document Management, Electronic Records Management, Records, Records Management, Retention, Retention Management, Uncategorized.

101 Just Sounds Good—There is Nothing Basic About a Records Inventory Introduction In records administration, an inventory is a detailed listing of each record/record series or system, along with a location indicator, and other essential data....

Defensible Disposition Program: Article One—Let’s get down to Basics

Written by Andrew Corridore on March 22, 2022. Posted in Archiving, Compliance, Disposition, Document Management, Information Governance, Legal, Records Management, Uncategorized.

For as long as there has been communication and work, there has been a means of documenting and tracking it. Sales receipts, pay stubs, tax documents, letters, memoranda, and beyond all have value at one time or another. Sometimes, those records need...

Whitepaper: Are You Stuck in the Past with Your RIM Program and Software?

Written by Sagesse Archives on February 13, 2022. Posted in Records, Records Management.

by Jasmine Boucher, BMgt, CIP SAGESSE VOLUME VII WINTER 2022 – AN ARMA CANADA PUBLICATION View PDF: Are You Stuck in the Past with Your RIM Program and Software? Back to Sagesse Whitepapers Back to Sagesse 2022 Introduction Many...