I
love an analogy; particularly when it relates to pop culture icons such as
James Bond. Jeffrey Lewis,
Records Analyst at Zimmerman Associates Incorporated, blogs that “with managingelectronic records RIM is James Bond and IT is Q” because IT provides the tools
and RIM is responsible for the rules.
I’m not sure that 007 was responsible for the rules – or that he always
played by them. And if RIM is James Bond
and IT is Q, who is M? What should M be
in an organisational structure, overseeing both James Bond and Q?
Just
while I’m up on my hobby horse; can we clarify the use of the RIM acronym; if we’re concerned about using the
broader IM (information management) because it confuses the line between the
information content and information technology, then let’s use the expansion of
RIM used in other countries (e.g. Canada) – recorded information management NOT records and
information management). The role of
the RIM practitioner should be to assist with the management of all their organisation’s recorded
information, much of which may not be documents and not suitable for capture in
an EDRMS.
