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posted on 01 July 2008 10:46

AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management, has made a presentation called “What’s In Your Digital Landfill?” available as a download: http://www.slideshare.net/jmancini77/whats-in-your-digital-landfill.

Data points included in the presentation include:

- Over 40% of organizations have no policy for classifying electronic information as business records.
- Nearly 64% of end users believe that their organization understands what PAPER records are and how they should be retained — but only 34% have the same understanding when considering ELECTRONIC records.
- Only 41% of organizations deliver any sort of training on how to handle electronic information.
- 52% of organizations have “little or no confidence” that their electronic information is “accurate, accessible, and trustworthy.”

AIIM President John Mancini said: “We continue to find a growing awareness across organizations of all sizes of the benefits of developing a strategy for managing electronic information – and the related risks of mismanaging this information. The popularity of this presentation clearly indicates that awareness of this critical issue has reached a tipping point.”

To help organizations find and learn from others with similar problems, AIIM has launched an executive networking site called InformationZen, located at http://www.informationzen.org.

“Unlike more traditional and static listservs and discussion groups, InformationZen provides a dynamic capability to link the global community of those who care about content, records, document and business process management. The community is just getting started, but we are already receiving enormously positive feedback about the potential.”

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}