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Accelerating positive change in electronic records management
Tackling the Process Issues Together
Project Colloquium
26 March 2009, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
REP Conference and Banqueting Centre (Victoria Suite)
Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EP
"The majority of eDRMS implementations I have seen to date are
marvellous examples of tail wagging the dog - the creation of systems of
control that service a few RM people in the organisation and ignore the
business usability for everyone else - this is simply not sustainable."
Participant in AC+erm e-Delphi Study
* How are we tackling the processes issues of managing e-records?
* Have we got it right?
* Are you searching for new approaches/ideas?
* Do you want to contribute to finding solutions and test out some
new 'tools'?
This free event shares the latest results of a major evidence-based
research project taking a strategic approach to accelerating positive
change in electronic records management. Discover what you can adopt
from the experience of different stakeholders in different disciplines,
sectors and countries. Compare your approach and contribute your
knowledge and experience to the findings. Try out some of the tools
being developed in the project and share your views.
* Are you a records/information professional in search of
solutions to managing e-records?
* Are you a manager wanting to make effective use of your
organisation's information assets?
* Are you an IT specialist wanting to implement ERM systems and
demonstrate their success?
* Are you an employee who wants systems designed to meet your
needs and be easy to use?
Then this event is a chance for you to learn, influence, share,
benchmark and contribute to the challenge of positive change in managing
our e-information assets by taking part in discussion forums and a
workshop. Take away fresh insights and benefit from trans-disciplinary
and cross-sectoral perspectives and expertise.
The registration form is available on the Project website
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/coll
/coll2/
Agenda
12.00-12.30 Lunch
12.30-12.40 Introduction
* The AC+erm project - update on findings
12.40-13.10 Discussion Forum One
* Identifying the process issues
* Have we got them right? * Have we identified them all?
13.10-14.40 Discussion Forum Two
* In search of solutions
* What is worth trying? * What should be avoided?
14.40-14.50 Workshop - Introduction
14.50-15.10 Tea
15.10-16.25
Workshop
* Using the draft tools (vignettes)
* How useful are they? How well do they work? How could they be
better?
16.25-16.30 Summary & next steps
16.30-17.30 Drinks reception - networking & further discussion
Our research is focused on electronic records management, not records
managers, and on the perspectives of all stakeholders who create and use
records. So consider bringing another colleague with you to the meeting
or recommending to them that they attend in their own right. For
example, if you are a records professional, perhaps someone on your
implementation project group, an IT or administrative staff member with
whom you have liaised, a senior manager who has expressed an interest,
or a lunch-time companion whose ideas appeal to you or make you think.
Interim research results are available in the Dissemination section of
the Project website http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm/
Susan Childs
Research Fellow
Information, Knowledge and Systems Research Group (IKS)
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
Pandon Building, Room 007 Camden St Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE
Tel: 0191 227 3761
Fax: 0191 243 7630
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: www.northumbria.ac.uk/isrc
AC+erm Project website: www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm
AC+erm Project blog: http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/
