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I’ve always struggled with the “MECE” (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive) promises of taxonomies. It can be easy to confuse a Department in the HR reporting structure called “Logistics” with the corporate Function for “Logistics”.  In my practical experience the Function of Logistics is useful where staff from other business or administrative groups may be …

Some of the IM and compliance folks out there may like to know there is a great searchable list of audited events for #O365, including admin events (link). From a pragmatic point of view, for basic #recordsmanagement, the fundamentals are: (1) create the right record at the right time with the right business context metadata, (2) …

Digital records management seemed fictional for most organizations even as late as 2013.  Joe Shepley of Doculabs threw out the challenge that no one was really doing it right, “The problem is bigger than SharePoint – Now before I get accused of bashing SharePoint here, let me let you all in on a dirty little …

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