MER 2010: Sessions Details

Records and information management professionals have long acknowledged the unique challenges of managing electronic records. Having been so engaged in addressing the sheer volume and legal risk of existing e-records and information, they have had little time to evolve into strategic thinkers and planners for electronic records and information management of the future.

This session will help participants transition from an electronic records management reactive “supporting” role to a proactive “leading” role. Specifically, it will:

• Examine today’s trends in work, communication, and collaboration,
• Present a vision of how we will work and compute in the future,
• Evaluate the effect this future work and computing environment will have on today’s acknowledged electronic records management “best practices”, and
• Assess the influence of the “born digital’” generation’s entry into the workplace.

Given the likely transformation of how records will be managed in the future, what are the immediate and short-term actions that records managers and their IT colleagues can take today? Three possible options will be presented:

• Working collaboratively, both strategically and tactically, to address tomorrow’s electronic records management’s challenges and problems today,
• Ensuring that existing paper-based polices and procedures are relevant and realistic when they are applied to electronic records and information management, and
• Revising the organization’s “system life cycle” process.

Finally, the session will provide guidance for the design and development of a long-range strategic plan for managing all records and information. Such a plan will incorporate an aggressive approach to digital recordkeeping, one that facilitates the use of new and evolving social media and collaborative technologies.

Like the light of a train coming down the track, the challenges of the “paperless office” are looming larger as it nears. This session will provide participants with the tools they need to evolve into being a proactive ERM leader.