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Rich Medina

Rich Medina is the co-founder and a Principal Consultant at Doculabs. Doculabs was founded on three simple principles: objective recommendations, analysis grounded by benchmark data, and a specialization in content-based applications. Doculabs has established itself as the premier consultancy in the enterprise content management (ECM) market, engaged by most of the Fortune 100 over its 25 year history.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Information Governance

Information Chaos: 4 Things You Need to Know to Safely Get Rid of Electronic Stuff

Defensible disposition addresses the problem of over-retention -- organizations have been over-retaining electronic information and failing to dispose of it in a legally defensible manner when business and law will allow. The best way to address this monster problem is to break it into more tractable sub-problems: day-forward information disposition and historical informational disposition. I won’t go into a day-forward information disposition here, because it is an easier problem to solve. Let’s stipulate that it’s taken care of and focus on historical information disposition.

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