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Electronic Records Management (ERM)
In a couple of recent blog posts, we’ve talked about important skills every modern records manager must have right now and the best certifications for records managers. This leads to a logical question – how does a records manager get there? Where do you start?
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Certified Information Professional (CIP)
The Certified Information Governance Professional (IGP) from ARMA is another certification in the information management field and one that’s attracted a lot of interest from records managers. Although I work for AIIM, which is the sole provider of the CIP certification; I’ve held both certifications since their inaugural beta exams and promise to remain neutral in this unbiased review. We will evaluate the 7 key differences between them, including: Exam Content and Development Exam Price Exam Preparation Exam Experience Digital Badging Certification Maintenance Industry Acceptance
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Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.
You’ve made a New Year’s resolution to clean up one of your digital landfills. Congratulations! But where do you start? In this blog post, we present an approach and checklist for migrating your information from one system to another. While the details will differ depending on a number of factors (the systems being migrated from and to, the nature of the information being migrated, etc.), many of the steps in the migration process will be similar. We believe that an effective migration process consists of four primary phases: Strategy Planning Preparation Migration
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Business Process Management (BPM)
Flowcharting is one of the first tools used in analyzing an existing business process. The purpose of a flowchart is to document the tasks within a particular process, and their sequencing, visually.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
This week I taught the AIIM Modern Records Management Master Class in Washington, DC. As with previous classes, there was a question that generated significant discussion among the students. In this instance, the question was about a system implementation that was not successful: “When you have a failed implementation, should you stick with it and try to make it work, or should you replace it with a better system?”
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Document Management | Electronic Records Management (ERM)
When I teach, questions often come up about the differences and similarities between document management and records management. Is there any difference? Does it really matter? Which one is best? The answers are, respectively, yes, yes, and it depends. Let’s take a look at each.
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