Hi all
I'm a newcomer to the forum. I'm currently in IT, but my background for many
years was finance (I know!).
As a novice in the area of RM, I've watched the discussion for a while and
found it very interesting. Change some nouns and the discussion could relate
to any number of professions which I think are equally frustrating.
I think RM/IM are difficult concepts, and as such I'm struggling to explain why
it's a good idea to those I wish to convince higher up the organisation (I'm not
entirely sold myself!)
I wondered therefore if anyone can sell it to me? Everyone on the forum
seems to be convinced it's a good idea, and therefore to the outsider it there
is not discussion as to what it means and why? There are some basic
questions I am not sure of the answers to:
1) what is it records managers want? What would success look like?
2) I'm very keen on efficiency of information, but from an efficiency basis the
cost of achieving something should not be more than the value of that
achieved - does the efficiency argument stack up? (I've seen some
discussions on business cases, so I suspect this is a rhetorical question)
3) Ditto for compliance - is there a business case?
The key question to me is number 1. If I need to sell it to the organisation,
what am I selling?
I'm not sure that's a good start! ;-)
Matt Smith
Business Development and IT Manager
City of Lincoln Council
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