Biting the Bullet: The electronic document/records management experience

On 23rd April 2002, GOVIS IM Forum ran a panel session of two government agencies that have recently tackled DM/ERM. John Roberts from Archives New Zealand chaired the meeting: presentations were followed by questions and discussion.

1. Speakers were asked to talk about
   
   
2. Over the life of your projects what were the biggest drivers that helped you to get ERM/DM through
   
   
3. How did you sell it and get real funding
   
   
4. What practical steps were taken
   
   
5. In hindsight, what would be done differently (lessons learned)
   
   
6. In terms of ease of access to coeporate information, can you state where the organisation was positioned, where it's at now, what it will be doing next.
   
   
7. The fundamental change has been …

About the speakers.

Jean Cavaney

The Department of Internal Affairs has been running a nationwide project to develop a electronic document/records management system and train staff to use it. Jean has been managing this project from its earliest stages four years ago. Her presentation describes the results DIA achieved in each project stage and where they go next.

Internal Affairs ERM implementation case study

Desiree Barnes and Ros Coote

Treasury has recently completed rollout and migration from its legacy systems to a fully integrated document/records management system. As Records Manager, Desiree is the main owner of the new system and has led the redevelopment of the Treasury file classification, and implementation of new policies and practices. Ros worked on the business cases, Treasury's Knowledge Management strategy and project managed the technology implementation. Their presentation explains how a combination of a Records Keeping framework and KM strategy supported the culture and technology change process.

Treasury Records keeping framework - presentation by Desiree Barnes and Ros Coote

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