Short history of ECM (US perspective)
How Records Management was discovered by the technical ECM folks.
"Somebody from ARMA, probably a hybrid type, said “what about Records Management?” The hard-core imaging folks like myself scratched our heads and wondered, “What’s that?” Then we found out we had been doing records management all along, but not in a good way because we were technology, not policy, oriented. Suddenly a long overlooked disciple that primarily operated in the basement was elevated to sit alongside IT to set up the rules and policies for what we had been doing all along. So records management was added to ECM."
AIIM infonomics
The ECM concept somehow reduces RM requirements to the functional integration of retention and disposition specs (incl. tracking and legal hold). A broader view of information mgmt compliance (IMC) or information governance would either stress the whole training and controlling/audit part including monitoring and improving RM programs (e.g. according to GARP).
"Somebody from ARMA, probably a hybrid type, said “what about Records Management?” The hard-core imaging folks like myself scratched our heads and wondered, “What’s that?” Then we found out we had been doing records management all along, but not in a good way because we were technology, not policy, oriented. Suddenly a long overlooked disciple that primarily operated in the basement was elevated to sit alongside IT to set up the rules and policies for what we had been doing all along. So records management was added to ECM."
AIIM infonomics
The ECM concept somehow reduces RM requirements to the functional integration of retention and disposition specs (incl. tracking and legal hold). A broader view of information mgmt compliance (IMC) or information governance would either stress the whole training and controlling/audit part including monitoring and improving RM programs (e.g. according to GARP).
jhagmann - 25. Apr, 19:02
