Eighty percent of businesses want to reduce paper from their normal workflows and business processes, according to research from Xerox. It’s no wonder: paper is becoming harder than ever for organizations to wrangle. Research and [...]

As the deadline to comply with OMB/NARA Memorandum M-19-21 rapidly approaches, it might be helpful for agencies to familiarize themselves with allowable exceptions to its mandates. While all agencies are expected to comply with M-19-21’s [...]

With only six months left to meet the records management mandates of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) memorandum M-19-21, many federal agencies are still struggling to comply. Transitioning to mostly electronic records [...]

One of the biggest obstacles to making a successful transition into electronic records management has nothing to do with digitization technology itself. It’s people. Whether you’re fighting to get staff to start handling records in [...]

FADGI – or the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative – has some important implications for federal records management. Representing an effort by a group of federal agencies to simplify and standardize records management guidelines, FADGI [...]

Many digitization projects suffer from a common point of confusion: that electronic-format records management, data management, and information governance are essentially the same thing, and any system or tool that solves one will solve all. [...]

Making the shift to electronic records management (ERM) means investing in technology, which will necessarily involve the agency’s IT department. However, not all technology investments require the same level of IT involvement. In fact, technology [...]