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Records Management: Periodic Assessments and Audits can Improve RM Programs

By Dick Weisinger

A report by Canon Business Process Services, “On the Record: Is Your Organization’s Record’s Management Program Providing High Value or High Risk?”, looked at how a records management program contributes to “effective governance, risk management, litigation preparedness, reputation protection and

Records Management: Federal Agencies are Over-budget and Swamped with Rapidly Increasing Record Volumes

By Dick Weisinger

While the federal government budget has allocated $29.4 million for the purpose of records management, a study by MeriTalk, sponsored by Iron Mountain, found that the actual spending on records management is actually $34.4 million, $5 million over budget.  At

Records Management: Poor Information Governance Leads can be Costly

By Dick Weisinger

Poor record keeping is causing businesses problems — problems with regulators, auditors and courts.  31 percent of businesses have reported governance issues with their records and documents.   That’s according to a new white paper by AIIM on information governance

eDiscovery: Businesses Continue to Struggle with Information Retention

By Dick Weisinger

It’s another year and time for another survey to report that most organizations have data retention programs that are incomplete or severely lacking, leaving themselves exposed to the legal and financial risks of an eDiscovery request. A Symantec survey looked

Records Management: Challenges Include Cost, Complexity and Apathy

By Dick Weisinger

While organizations are gradually becoming more satisfied with their Records Management (RM) systems, RM systems continue to pose a number of challenges that have been difficult for many organizations to surmount. Four of the main challenges that plague many RM