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...
Successful RIM Initiatives Invest in Project and Change Management
Creating—and many times just updating—an enterprise records and information management program represents considerable organizational change.
From the CEO to the front desk assistant, most roles spend large parts of each day interacting in some way...
Developing RIM Program Executive Sponsorship Part 2: Landing an Executive Sponsor
Welcome to the second part of our series on developing executive sponsorship for your records management or information governance project. If you recall, in the first article, we discussed:
- Selecting a potential executive...