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When Pressing Delete Is OK: Learn How to Eliminate ROT in Your Organization

AIIM

This causes enough problems by itself, but when you then add to the pile all the redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information you have in your systems, on your file shares, and in every other possible location, it’s a real nightmare. Don’t Let Your Information ROT. Identifying and Evaluating ROT.

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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. Whether it’s your network file shares, EFSS locations such as Box and Dropbox, or even your email accounts, a large portion of content and records is essentially useless. Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1.

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Records Management in the Intelligent Information Era

AIIM

Defining a New Era of Records Management. Records management has traditionally been significantly focused on compliance. We argued in the AIIM 2019 State of the Industry – Content Services that “[information management] is better sold indirectly – as a byproduct of automation and customer experience – than head-on.”.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

Create an information governance team including representatives from IT, Records Management, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, and Line of Business. Set retention periods and audit your systems to ensure that they have retention management configured and switched on. Bake governance into the process.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

Information Management Specialists: A given migration could require advice and support from records managers, knowledge managers, document managers or document controllers, privacy and data protection specialists, and others. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)?

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4 Steps in Streamlining Open Records Requests

Gimmal

Team members should be from various departments (legal, IT, records management, etc.) Searching data for relevancy and redacting data for exemptions becomes burdensome without some form of record management with a defined, consistent taxonomy. and should be empowered to create and implement policy.

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Looking Back At Information Governance in 2018

Everteam

Podcast Summary: The Intersection of Information Security and Governance. If it’s true that almost 80% of the information an organization has is ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial, then there’s a ton of work to be done to find that information, clean it out and organize what’s left. That requires records management.