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Why is records management disappearing and being replaced by information governance?
From Bassam Zarkout: As businesses continue to evolve, the records management profession has struggled to translate the practices of the paper paradigm to the world of electronic information. The adoption of social, mobile and cloud have revealed gaps in many of the traditional records management applications, which are unable to capture content from these new sources and manage them. Simply put, records management has not been able to keep up with the velocity, volume and variety of formats for digital assets.
In this digital age, the records management industry is dealing with many new challenges that are not being addressed by the practices that records management professionals had been using for physical records. While records management solutions are still implemented within many companies, they do not provide the complete management of the record’s metadata, content tiers across storage platforms, security classification and data privacy attributes, as well as content digital rights. The transition to information governance is necessary as records management has its roots and practices based on managing physical files and papers, while information governance is centered on looking after and making decisions about an organization’s information assets, throughout their entire life cycle.