Information Management

The May-June 2012 issue addresses the future of information security with the rise in global mobile technology.

GARP® Series:

IT's Most Important Role: Ensuring Information Integrity

As workers have gained access to more powerful technology, become savvy and independent in using it, and begun interfacing with external services, IT involvement with processing and managing the information being created has significantly decreased. But, with electronically stored information under intense scrutiny by courts and regulators, Patrick Cunningham, CRM, CIP, FAI, addresses how IT must now focus on ensuring the organization’s ability to produce records and information that are authentic and reliable.

RIM Fundamentals Series:

Future Watch: Strategies for Long-Term
Preservation of Electronic Records

With the volume of electronic records exponentially growing and hardware and software constantly evolving, organizations face an ever-increasing challenge to maintain accessibility to those records that must be retained long-term. Strategies abound, but there is not a one-size-fits-all solution; Gordon E.J. Hoke says it requires a unique combination of tools, policies, procedures, and compromise.

Drawing a Blueprint for a Scalable Taxonomy

Drawing on the basic concepts of biological classification most studied in high school, this article by Eugene Stakhov, CRM, CDIA+, describes how to develop a scalable taxonomy that can migrate to any content repository – from share drives to enterprise content management systems.

Tech Trends:

Smartphone Technologies Shine Spotlight on Information Governance

To address strategic planning issues, collaborate more effectively with IT personnel, and position records and information management (RIM) for greater organizational success, RIM professionals must stay current with technological changes. In this article, Nancy Dupre Barnes, Ph.D., CRM, CA, and Frederick Barnes, J.D., discuss how communications technologies – and smartphones, in particular – have changed the way business is done.

In Review:

Effective Information Governance Is Power

Deborah H. Juhnke, CRM, explains how The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Finding the Hidden ROI in Information Assets (ROI Commentary) offers an option value approach to information governance, which recognizes “the long-term strategic value of using and repurposing” information assets “in new and additional ways.”

In Review

High-Level Blueprint for Private Sector Information Governance Programs

Lee Nemchek, CRM, explains how Managing Records in Global Financial Markets is a must-have resource for experienced finance industry professionals working to advance their RIM/information governance programs to full maturity.

Up Front:

News, trends, and analysis of interest to you and your organization.

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