The torture of a long runner: records declaration
Since more than 20 years users struggle with the same nasty problem.
Why is it so hard?
... Bruce Miller gives a nice intro in a video of MER:
http://bit.ly/U1Xynx
people are lazy and technology (automation) cannot help yet in a satisfactory way.
Are we ever able to solve this f... problem? It seems to be a vendor perspective and if users are not going to buy-in , organizations will never succeed (getting it right with metadata which really supports analytics and findability).
Why is it so hard?
... Bruce Miller gives a nice intro in a video of MER:
http://bit.ly/U1Xynx
people are lazy and technology (automation) cannot help yet in a satisfactory way.
Are we ever able to solve this f... problem? It seems to be a vendor perspective and if users are not going to buy-in , organizations will never succeed (getting it right with metadata which really supports analytics and findability).
jhagmann - 21. Dez, 15:38
deadlock records declaration
Why the vendors though? I always thought the problem was with the larger ecology. If it is indeed a vendors' market, this is not going to change so long as buyers come at it with a flawed perception of technology, i.e. a perception of technology as something that it neutral. Implementation is a cultural process, which has a chance of working properly only if the technology has been interrogated properly beforehand.
Vendors's perspective
I fully agree that it's about ecology and culture.Steve Bailey has commented years ago about these phenomena:
"As far as the average user is concerned, the EDRMS is something they didn’t want, don’t like and can’t use. As such, its no wonder that so few users accept them – as one person once said to me “making me use an EDRMS is like asking a plasterer to use a hammer!"
"And now, finally, it is time to turn our eyes to the records management profession itself. In my opinion, we have come within a whisker of allowing our blind obsession with EDRMS to turn us into an intellectually-sterile, vendor-led profession. (...)" in: RMS Debate: The case against EDRMS Has EDRMS been a success? The case for the prosecution, RMS Conference, Edinburgh 22 April 2007) - from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_management.