4 Easy Questions

4 Easy Questions

A RIM Reality Check

The following questions may offer a happy confirmation of your business practices--or cause for reflection!
We hope you find them interesting and welcome your feedback.

All questions are required. If "other" is selcted, please add your comment.

Questions marked with a * are required.

 
*1. Does your business or organisation have corporate policy that governs the management and retention of information resources created/received and retained in multiple media types (such as paper, digital photographs, electronic files and emails)?
Yes, our policy explicitly addresses information holdings in all media.
No, do not have a policy that specifically covers all media types and formats.
No, we have a policy governing confidentiality, but retention and multimedia records are not explicitly addressed.
!Other 
 
*2. Does your classification scheme provide clear and easy to understand descriptions of information and record holdings and explicit guidance on retention periods and disposal requirements?
Yes, we have an enterprise-wide classification scheme covers all information resources. It details exactly how long records should be retained.
No, individual units manage information resources according to local needs. There is no systematic approach to managing corporate risk or opportunity related to recorded information assets.
No, in our business, classification is strictly a matter of security. We do not manage information content systematically to protect against corporate liability and risk.
!Other 
 
*3. Does your technology systems strategy enable the business to identify and pull together all information related to a subject, person, place, thing or time, regardless of the storage media?
Yes, we design our systems and capture metadata to support effective retrieval for legal discovery and compliance audit.
No, our systems focus on workflows and active process needs. We can allocate resources to design a routine to retrieve more data if needed, but this may not include records outside the specific system.
!Other 
 
*4. Does your staff training program include effective records and information management training?
No, we do not provide training on how to manage recorded information resources in accord with its value to business.
Yes, we provide training in records management and know it is effective because we measure after-training improvement in staff performance.
Partially, training is provided on managing records but we do not know whether the training delivers specific, measureable outcomes.
!Other