What Are ‘Sustainable Formats’ For Electronic Records, Part 1?
As the number of federal records continues to increase, and agencies are required to create and maintain electronic versions of a larger portion of these documents, it’s important to choose “sustainable formats.” In other words, [...]
What to Do When Workers Don’t Follow Records Management Rules
A good records management program is worthless if no one uses it as intended. Worse, there’s more at stake to non-compliance than just running into inefficiencies and increased errors. Non-compliance can also run afoul of [...]
Success Criteria for Managing Permanent Electronic Records
Managing government records is a complicated task. Records managers at governmental agencies must design and execute a complicated array of processes to ensure creation, use, storage, and disposition of records follow all applicable laws and [...]
Understanding Federal Records Centers
Over the years, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has provided the federal government with a wide range of records management services. One of their most important and helpful services is running, in [...]
How to Find an Effective, Trustworthy Records Management Technology Vendor
All the way back in 2019, OMB/NARA memorandum M-19-21 set an aggressive objective to ensure that virtually all Federal records would be created, retained, and managed in electronic formats with appropriate metadata by December 31, [...]
4 Approaches to Automation in Records Management
One upside to electronic records management is the potential to reduce labor and increase accuracy. In fact, one of the core objectives of any organization engaging in a digitization project is reducing administrative burden while [...]
Is Your ERM Secure Enough for Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD)?
BYOD is a big deal in the modern workplace. Research shows that nearly all (95%) companies permit employee use of personal devices for work purposes, and as many as 87% of organizations actually depend on [...]