Guest Column: A Records Management Battle Plan

By Ganesh Vednere

Record Managers are a force of one. Now that is a particularly lopsided equation. How can one record manager be responsible for 10,000 personnel? Not only is this equation possible, but it is actually being proven out across several large organizations. In fact, several of these organizations have just 1 record manager and, if the record manager is lucky, they get a small support team of 3-5 personnel. Contrast this with other information and data management programs within a typical large organization. The information/content management team in a typical mid-size organization has more than 30-40 personnel including analysts, architects, designers, developers, testers and production support staff not to mention the folks on the business side gathering requirements, documenting business rules and designing process flows. So how is that the records management function continues to survive with barely enough people to even start a game of scrabble?