Knowing what all that information is and where it resides is vital to an organization successfully doing business – and especially to responding to e-discovery. It allows an organization to routinely dispose of information that has met its retention requirements, thereby reducing the volume it has to manage, hold for litigation, and produce for discovery.

This issue of Information Management explores technology and tools to better manage your organization's information in an age where information governance is paramount.

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IM January-February 2012

  • January - February 2012 Issue

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  • Mapping Your Way to Compliance with a Data Atlas

    (PDF) Attention on data maps has been brought to the forefront of organizations’ senior management, thanks to new mandates in litigation discovery, but with collaboration among key stakeholders, Wayne Wong explains how a data map can be developed into a data atlas, providing a “total information systems overview” that will be an even more valuable tool for effective information governance.

  • RIM Fundamentals Series: Network Shared Drives: How to Clean Up Files for Better Information Management

    (PDF) This article by Brian Tuemmler offers recommendations about what an organization can do at the enterprise, workgroup, and personal level, both through process changes and technology, to prep and clean up their shared drives for better information management and for potential migration to an electronic content and records management (ECRM) system.

  • A New Game Plan for Building a Retention Strategy That Works

    (PDF) The traditional concept of using a retention schedule to manage just “records” is no longer sufficient. Lorrie Luellig offers practical advice for developing and implementing a modern, executable retention schedule based on the business value of all “information” – regardless of its location – in today’s complex business environment.

  • GARP® Series: GARP® and Its Weight on the Legal Profession

    (PDF) The Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principle®’s (GARP®) impact on the legal profession, including its guidelines for judges deciding spoliation in felony and serious misdemeanor convictions, is noteworthy. This article by John Isaza demonstrates how compliance with GARP® may help ensure compliance with rules guiding some professions, specifically like those imposed on lawyers and judges.

  • Business Matters: Driving Quality Improvement Through Audits

    (PDF) Moving beyond the negative connotations sometimes associated with audits, Nancy Dupre Barnes, Ph.D., CRM, CA, and Nicholas R. Barnes, CPA, refocuses attention on their positive, evaluative potential for organizations and the RIM professional’s role in using them to drive quality improvement.

  • In Review: Archives in the Information Age: A New Beginning or Demise?

    (PDF) Is there any future for archives, archivists, and the discipline itself in the era of racing information technologies? The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping provides some answers through the prism of past and present, mass and individual, philosophy and technology.

  • In Review: No Excuses Approach to Managing Operational Risk

    (PDF) No Excuses: A Business Approach to Managing Operational Risk provides a practical approach to help identify and mitigate operational risks and shows how those risks can be directly linked to the business process flows for all industries.

  • Up Front

    (PDF) News, trends and analysis.