Obstacles
What are some of the issues that the information governance industry is facing?
From Robin Woolen: One of the biggest issues that records managers have, and the tendency that organizations have, is to keep records managers typically relegated to the role of custodian or librarian of a company’s information, where they are located in the basement and no one sees or speaks to them. Records managers are already introverted and rarely speak to others so, in my opinion, this results in a big [cultural] disconnect in an organization and leads to losing the underlying value of the information that they are keeping. The whole value of this information has been lost from the C-suite and down. Luckily, technology is now to the point where this can be reversed. The Big Data craze is another helping factor though you can’t utilize Big Data unless your organization has control of its data in the first place. Now organizations are seeing the value in their information and keeping it organized. From here, the records management personnel must step up to organize information and dispose of unnecessary materials putting the value back into their organization’s information.