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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

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/

Rachel Hardiman, BA (Hons), MSc

On behalf of the AC⁺erm Project Team

School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences

Northumbria University

Room 247

Pandon Building

Camden Street

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE2 1XE

Tel: 0191 243 7650

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AC⁺erm Project website: www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm

AC⁺erm Project blog: http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/