The new issue of the Records Mgmt Journal is about RM research:
Year: 2007 Volume: 17 Issue: 3)
The editorial written by David Ryan and Elizabeth Lomas gives an overview of the content from a practitioners view. It is right to ask
"how many organizations have optimistically purchased and implemented an EDRM software solution that their users including senior mgmt, do not have the capabilities or the inclination to absorb into their working practices?"
There is still a huge gap between ambitious plans and real world implementation that works.
From my experience it's also a fact that there are numbers of projects in the industry of the private sector that the academic world does not know and remains unshared.
and "There is still reluctance amongst practitioners and theorists tomove between academic and practical work; many practitioners limit themselves to a rare article that shares experience of a project of only local or limited applicability.
An amazing finding concerns software for records retention:
In 1999 S. Bailey wrote a remarkable article in the RMJ on the future of retention schedules and called for the implementation of electronic retention software to effectively manage information assets. Almost ten years later there is still no generic stand-alone retention product on the market to record the properties and support the management of information assets, despite the claim by records mgmt professionals that a key RM tool is the implementation of a retention schedule (p.148).
Well, we have Don Skupsky's tool but this is too limited to the US requirements and has some other shortcomings. The big threes, especially OpenText have some reasonable functionalities to manage schedules but it's not a standalone product and not easy to use.
Content (reference with abstracts) see:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0956-5698.htmjhagmann - 17. Nov, 16:39
