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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

What’s in Your ECM and ERM Systems?

In this series of interviews, we've been chatting with The AIIM Conference sponsors to get a preview of their upcoming sessions. Here, I sat down with Brian Tuemmler from Nuix. We explore some of the shortcomings of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and implementations. Brian talks about some clever new ways to approach ECM and how Nuix can help. What's in Your ECRM System? Brian Tuemmler is an Information Governance Program Architect with Nuix.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Information Governance

From Records Management to Information Governance – A Game Changing Strategy by Land O’Lakes

Check out Monica Crocker's presentation on the impact of Information Governance at Land O'Lakes.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

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.

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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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Electronic Records Management (ERM)

What Does the Obama Administration’s Records Management Initiative Mean to You?

I recently did a webinar with Sue Trombley from Iron Mountain on the impact of the Obama Administration's records management initiative -- not just on the federal government, but on records management in general. The webinar was so much fun; I thought I would follow it up with a short series of questions with Sue. Here's the interview.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

Top 10 AIIM Expert Bloggers for July – ECM, ERM, SharePoint

The AIIM Community offers a space for members of our community to share the information management best practices they've learned from experience on the job. These blog articles provide valuable insights. I was looking through the most popular blog posts for July and thought I would share my top ten here. The rules for qualifying: If you had more than one post in the top 10, I only took the top one. I only counted posts that were done in 2012. So congratulations to all of the following bloggers (and thanks for being involved in AIIM). And the envelope, please....

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

5 Myths about Records Management

Myth # 1. Records Management starts when the boxes of files go offsite. Reality: Records Management is a discipline that starts when a record – paper or electronic – is actually created. By waiting until a record is no longer active to begin tracking its movement and access, companies are missing an opportunity to make the record accessible, authentic, and reliable. These characteristics of a record are required by the courts and government auditors. So if you don’t recognize this early on, you face a “pay me now or pay me later” scenario if your company becomes involved in litigation and has to gather responsive materials. In “pay me now,” you take the necessary time to manage records correctly throughout their lifecycle. In “pay me later,” you spend significantly more time and expense gathering case-related materials with a greatly increased risk of incurring penalties and sanctions.

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