Records management is challenging even with just the normal types of documents and records most organizations generate. Add in records that contain information that must be protected – because they contain protected personal information, trade [...]

After a yearslong process of scrambling to meet a series of increasingly ambitious records management deadlines, federal agencies now find the next major deadline nearly here. It all started back in 2012 with OMB M-12-18, [...]

Destroying records inappropriately can land any organization in hot water. For example, getting rid of a record that is subject to regulatory retention requirements or a legal hold can lead to serious consequences. That means [...]

Federal agencies have been ambitiously pursuing a digital agenda for several years now, working hard to meet federal mandates and modernize their records management to make greater use of digital technology. Along the way, they [...]

As federal agencies face down a rapidly approaching deadline for managing records in electronic format by December 31, 2022, a reprieve may be in sight. In comments made at the 930GOV conference in August, National [...]

Increasingly, today’s information management is about taking advantage of opportunities inherent in the information rather than just formulaically following pre-existing rules designed principally around compliance. To be sure, risk mitigation is always going to be [...]

Ultimately, the goal of any records management workflow is to ensure your organization can facilitate its work, produce desired business outcomes, and reduce costs and risks as much as possible. The ultimate disposition and destruction [...]