Blog & Articles
On 16.3. is Digital Cleanup Day
Tidying up is clearly not everyone's cup of tea, but we all know the good feeling that a tidy room, a tidy desk or ... a tidy drive! You can feel proud with a clear conscience, because deleting data also has an important effect on energy consumption. I have calculated...
Dealing with data risks: Data breach notification
A data breach notification or "data breach notification" refers to the process by which an organization or company is required to notify the relevant data protection authorities and, if applicable, data subjects of a data breach that is likely to result in a high risk...
The 10 most important principles for successful data protection implementation
As with the introduction of the GDPR, the hectic pace in the run-up to the issue of data protection was and is noticeable everywhere. Completely wrongly, provided that one had already fulfilled the elementary requirements before. Because the new data protection law...
The new krm website and digitalkonform.ch: the most important changes at a glance
In general, the refresh was aimed at a modern design, bilingualism throughout, and a stronger focus of krm services on customer demand; customer value is our main driver. We have also sharpened the profiles of the krm service areas and narrowed them down to four core...
Records Management Pain Points
What are the sore points in data management or document management? What are the "eternal obstacles" that most organizations cut their teeth on? Most organizations implicitly or explicitly have a "records management system," by whatever term such a system is known in...
Tidy up instead of buying on the spur of the moment
Update: Interview from Netzwoche by Daniel Burgwinkel & Bruno Wildhaber In Computerworld 8 of May 22, 2015 , Bruno Wildhaber looks at the basics of information governance and shows what a refrigerator has to do with your data management.
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? (part 1)
Part One: Introduction Without a doubt, e-mail has fundamentally changed the business world and also private communication behavior in the last ten years. Today, business correspondence or private communication is mostly done by e-mail, as this electronic exchange of...
Unchangeability according to GeBüV Art. 9
In practice, questions about the implementation of GeBüV Art. 9 arise time and again. In particular, under which circumstances modifiable storage may be used in the archive. Here are the requirements for an archiving solution to be compatible with Art. 9 and for...
New publication: Lifecycle Mgmt and relationship with Information Governance (french)
Gouvernance d'information (Les Cahiers du Numerique) - impact of records mgmt to information governance The French Canadian journal "Les cahiers du numerique" has issued an interesting number about the interrelations btw records management (information lifecycle mgmt)...
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? (part 2)
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? Part Two: Reasons for Email Archiving The most important thing right away. With the retention regulations of Swiss commercial law in force since 1.1.2013 , there are no longer any legal requirements in Switzerland for the...
Blockchains – or when will the next nerd be driven through the village?
Hardly a day goes by without a journalist feeling called upon to preach the promising future of the bankless society. In search of new jobs & Zuckerbergs, the news- and money-hungry gang of investors and journalists has now stumbled upon the topic of blockchain...
Update: Retention of business correspondence?
Business correspondence - retention obligation? Since 1.1.2013, Swiss commercial law has applied the principle that business correspondence is no longer subject to retention. What does this mean for companies? Which cases do you consider borderline and where is there...
The Standardization Zoo or “Who Needs ISO Standards?”
I do not make a pit of murder out of my heart. I consider 90% of the existing standards to be redundant, unnecessary and confusing, or as a colleague of mine once said: "As long as there are different sockets in Euopa, I don't believe in standardization, certainly not...
Visibility and utility of IG programs for spec. Business functions and end users
James Lappin writes in his paper,"The strengths and weaknesses of the information governance approach to records management" "If one of the main strengths of the information governance model is the reduction in burden on the end-user, the main weakness of the model is...
Glossary
This glossary already includes the additions that will be referenced in the second edition of the guide (2021). In the future, the glossary will only be maintained here as an online version (krm.swiss/glossar), because this allows the technical terms and links to be...
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