Records management in Australia is a well-established field with a strong focus on compliance and accountability. In this interview with Conni Christensen from synercon.co we want to discuss the current state and future trends in records management. Conni Christensen...
Basics/Foundations
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...
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.
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Seminar Review: Data Protection and k2 PID Cockpit
On June 28, 2022, Kompetenzzentrum Records Management AG (krm) and Karakun AG (karakun) presented their joint "K2 PID Cockpit" for tracking down personal data in internal systems in Zurich. However, the event kicked off with an exciting look at data protection...
What is Information Governance?
What is information governance – a brief explanation
Handing over data in the bankruptcy of cloud providers
Cloud services are based on the fact that IT infrastructures, such as computing or network capacities, data storage or also software are made available directly via a network, in particular the Internet, and these can be obtained by a user as required. As a result,...
Book excerpt IG 2021 (5): IG also applies to SMEs – The GLAS model as a guide
We repeatedly hear the objection from various sides that information governance is only relevant for medium to large organizations. For managers and people without prior knowledge, the introduction: Information Governance for KLV (children, laymen and board...
Do companies need a Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO)? (3) – IG in organizational change. Digitization needs information governance
"Information technology strategy plans in the absence of business policies are symptoms of policy-making avoidance by top executive management." (Paul Strassmann, Governance of Information Management. The Concept of an Information Constitution, 2004, p.16) ...
Book extract 2021 (7): Linking data – using semantic technologies
Do you know the fallacy of disconnected data? It goes something like this: (chap. 6.3 Data management) "Most organizations are full to bursting with databases specifically designed to support one application or another. There is also data in...
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