Dear Members,
Our organisation is currently looking to digitise it's HR and financial files. Before proceeding, the business is very keen to gain any perspective from other organisations who have gone through a similar process. The questions below is a list which the teams involved would like a steer on before proceeding to take any decisions:
1. Background - What was the problem that was trying to addressed? How long ago was this?
2. What were the key benefits? Were the benefits realised quickly, sometime after the project or are they yet to be realised?
3. How many files / documents were digitised?
4. How much did this cost? Were there any additional costs not foreseen?
5. What were the initial challenges?
6. Any risks?
7. Was the Project lead by their Digital Service department or in partnership with the Business?
8. What was the approach: (a) Were the historical paper files scanned or kept it in storage? (b) Were paper records used until
the ‘go live’ date of the new digital system (i.e. cut-off date for paper) OR (c) Was only ‘live’ information scanned and a cut-off date was
applied for paper files?
9. Were documents weeded through before scanning into the system?
10. Was the order in which departmental records scanned HR then Finance, vice versa or no particular preference?
11. What digital solution / system(s) were chosen, and was there any particular reason?
12. What was the quality assurance process for this work? Was this resourced internally to do this in addition to BAU work?
13. How was staff motivation levels managed? I.e. if involved in or doing tedious work every day around filing, weeding and assisting with
scanning?
If anyone has any advice or examples they can share on all or some of the above questions, we would be very grateful.
Kind regards,
Martha Taylor
Corporate Records Manager, Parliamentary Archives
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Tel: 0207 219 8314
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