Electronic Records Management
The Electronic Records Management (ERM) Training Program is designed from global best practices among our members. It explores records management in relation to the business needs of all
types of organizations, whether in the public or private sector,
embracing all records, but with a particular emphasis on electronic records.
Electronic document and records management aims to enable organizations to manage documents and records throughout the document life-cycle, from creation to destruction.
Typically, systems consider a document a work in progress until it has undergone review, approval, lock-down and (potentially) publication, at which point it becomes a formal record within the organization.
Once a document achieves the status of a record, the organization may apply best-practice or legally enforced retention policies which state how the second half of the record life-cycle will progress. This typically involves retention (and protection from change), until some events occur which relate to the record and which trigger the final disposition schedule to apply to the record. Eventually, typically at a set time after these events, the record undergoes destruction.
Electronic document and records management aims to enable organizations to manage documents and records throughout the document life-cycle, from creation to destruction.
Typically, systems consider a document a work in progress until it has undergone review, approval, lock-down and (potentially) publication, at which point it becomes a formal record within the organization.
Once a document achieves the status of a record, the organization may apply best-practice or legally enforced retention policies which state how the second half of the record life-cycle will progress. This typically involves retention (and protection from change), until some events occur which relate to the record and which trigger the final disposition schedule to apply to the record. Eventually, typically at a set time after these events, the record undergoes destruction.