Information Zen

Chris Walker's Page

Latest Activity

A group for those who have attended, will attend, or are contemplating attending any of the AIIM Certificate courses. Discuss pros, cons, experiences, and benefits of the courses.
November 20
Focused on issues and challenges associated with document, content, and records management at companies and organizations with < 100 employees
October 14
I've got Records Management responsibility as well as Content Management policy responsibility. These days I describe what I do as "maintaining the corporate memory of the organization for business reuse and statutory compliance." Because I work for…
October 13
If you define Records Managers as only managing "Records", then perhaps you are right. However, most Records Managers I know are just as concerned about non-records as they are records. Records Managers, because of their background, objective point…
October 9
A group for those who have attended, will attend, or are contemplating attending any of the AIIM Certificate courses. Discuss pros, cons, experiences, and benefits of the courses.
October 8
Chris Walker added a blog post
Leaving legal aspects out of the discussion for the moment, does anyone really care about whether or not content is a record? If content is not declared a record, is that content less valid or valuable than if it were considered a record? I am refer…
October 8
October 2
The IOA Master Class is most likely coming to Western Canada in Q4 or Q1, 2010. Still not sure about E2.0, but will try to arrange this.
October 1

Profile Information

Does your company primarily...
Sell information management services (including consulting)
The country I live and work in ...
Canada
About Me:
Sr. Consultant focusing on Information Management, Reporting, & Business Intelligence.
Website:
http://www.allstream.com/services/its/information/

Chris Walker's Blog

Chris Walker

Records - Who Cares?

Leaving legal aspects out of the discussion for the moment, does anyone really care about whether or not content is a record? If content is not declared a record, is that content less valid or valuable than if it were considered a record? I am referring to the business value of content. I am referring to an organization’s ability to leverage the content in order to reduce wasted effort, to increase customer satisfaction, to drive profitability, to reduce expenses, and to keep everyone’s butt out… Continue

Posted on October 8, 2009 at 12:26pm — 2 Comments

Chris Walker

Personal Opinions on EIM

The following are some of my views on Enterprise Information Management (EIM); these views are purely my own (i.e.: not endorsed by my employer).

For the sake of clarity, relative to this post, I submit the following definitions:

Information – all the content that an organization creates, ingests, and is the custodian of; regardless of format (physical / electronic), structure (or lack thereof), record status (declared / undeclared / transitory); to which context is applie… Continue

Posted on October 26, 2008 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Comment Wall (1 comment)

You need to be a member of Information Zen to add comments!

Join this Ning Network

At 1:53pm on October 2, 2009, Gloria Grant said…
Hi Chris, Thanks for the invite. I am with Iron Mountain, Information Management, Protection & Storage, and I am certainly looking forward to finding out more about this forum.
 
 

Blog Posts

Sanooj Kutty

IT – Best friend to Business in BPM?

Posted by Sanooj Kutty on December 21, 2009 at 2:14am

Rui Oliveira

e-grou Document Management Free Edition Released

Posted by Rui Oliveira on December 14, 2009 at 7:18am

Ralph J. Stalter, Jr.

Blessings of the Holiday Season...

Posted by Ralph J. Stalter, Jr. on December 13, 2009 at 7:04am

Digital Landfill blog

Loading feed

AIIM Knowledge Center blog

Loading feed

Information Overload

Loading feed

Badge

Loading…
 

© 2009   Created by Atle Skjekkeland, ECMs

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service