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What is Information Capture? Definition, Purpose, and Value

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The first step on this journey is to get all of your information into the information ecosystem. This is a practice called Capture. What is Information Capture? Whether paper or electronic, records are often created and related to other records - for example, all personnel files. Capturing Value.

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What is the Value of Records and Information Management?

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To help answer that, take a quick mental inventory of all the technologies your organization utilizes that interact in some way with organizational information. Think about technology like email, personal computers, the web, smart phones, social media, etc. Now ask yourself – who is in charge of managing all of that information?

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

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To a greater or lesser degree, most significant information management initiatives will involve a scanning capability to capture hard copy paper documents as electronic images. First, once a document is captured electronically, it can be made accessible through the IT infrastructure to others at remote locations.

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