Shirley R Cowcher Drowning in paper You would think, as we now live in a world of cloud computing, mobile technology, the Internet of Things and Big Data, that we […]
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Quarterly Update of ARRM Online
The June 2017 updates of ARRM Onlihne have been completed. All current subscribers have been notified and sent a newsletter outlining some of the changes that have occurred. Amendments and […]
Read More →West Australian Government Agencies Facing Change
The West Australian Public Sector Commission realises that the proposed changes to the machinery of government in WA are going to have a significant impact. In order to help prepare […]
Read More →ARRM Online to be launched in April 2017
For the past 6 months I have been working with a developer to convert the Australian Record Retention Manual from a very large document into an online resource. The first […]
Read More →Information Overload – December 2016 – Whistleblowing
Shirley R Cowcher Is it necessary? This is a topic we have presented previously, a long time ago, in 2004 but every so often it presents itself and leads me […]
Read More →Information Overload – August 2016 – Disaster Recovery – Practice Makes Perfect – A Case Study
Shirley R Cowcher It’s like Insurance Disaster plans are a bit like insurance you have one but hope you will never have to use it. The similarity to insurance […]
Read More →Information Overload – July 2016 – Policy, Strategy and Process. Why do we put the Cart before the Horse?
Shirley Cowcher What comes first? When you consider the implementation of a best practice information management system (by system I’m not referring to technology) what do you consider the essential […]
Read More →Australian Record Retention Manual Newsletter
The first ARRM Newsletter for subcribers has been released to all the 2015 subscibers. It outlines what we have been doing since the release of the 2015 edition, including mentions […]
Read More →Information Overload – March 2016 – Ready, Willing and Able: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
Dr Janine Douglas Picturethis .. There you are working away in the basement, organising your boxes of records to send to offsite storage. Then suddenly one of the staff hears an […]
Read More →Information Overload – February 2016 – The Horse Has Bolted
Shirley Cowcher It’s the end of the project… Recently we were faced with a request from a client to assist them in managing the records associated with a large construction […]
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