Building a Smarter RIM Program Through Structured Problem Solving
What do finance, healthcare, and great chess players have in common? Each relies on “structured problem solving”—a systematic approach to identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex issues—to overcome their thorniest challenges.
In a world of rapidly...
Kickstart Your 2025: Revamp Your RIM Program!
Essential Insights: What Every RIM Professional Should Know About Backup and Recovery
After much toiling, your new RIM program is off to a successful start. It took effort, but your records have been inventoried and categorized, and their lifecycles mapped. And thanks to some regular and creative...
Does Dunder Mifflin Have an Approved Records Retention Schedule? RIM Portrayal in Hollywood is … Interesting
In the RIM profession, you may find yourself watching movies and television through a different lens. Pop culture has shown us that mishandling records leads to some comedic and, sometimes, catastrophic results. Whether it’s accidental...
Credentials for Advancing Your RIM Career
Information governance and records information management are complicated worlds comprised of many different roles—each of which require expertise in a specific area.
Fortunately, multiple certifying bodies exist to ensure professionalism through area specific certificates and...
RIMpocalypse: Reflections by a RIM Rookie
The Beginning of the End…
As a new business school graduate in December 2019, I eagerly began my first job as a compensation specialist at a premier tourist attraction on the island of Oahu. My...