Hi all
I am also very new. I come from a communication/customer focused
background and am currently studying for my MSc at Dundee University. I
have been in this new position for about 20 months and every day I am
learning something new.
I think the concepts you can sell is that with a fully supported records
management programme are...
Underpinning the infrastructure of the business by supplying evidience
of busness activities
Achieving compliance to the relevent legislation quickly and easily
Very importantly - saving money - time and capacity.
For individual members of staff...
Saving time searching, finding the most current version, ensuring
sensitive documents are retained correctly, less network traffic if you
implement an EDRMS,corporate naming conventions etc etc.
I have developed a set methodolgy in which I am rolling out electronic
records management, which involves induction packs, training - and
cakes!!
The benefits of selling the concept reaps great rewards as a
successfully implemented team sell the benefits for you.
Michele Noad
Information Architect
CICTU
01225 718063
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Subject: Re: How successful has RM been? (was RE: Comparative
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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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