Datafile White Paper:  Eight Tips for Getting Corporate Buy-In on Your Records Management Program

Successfully developing any records management program requires buy-in from all levels of the organisation. Records management professionals who effectively communicate the basic goals and value proposition of records management to everyone from the senior executive to frontline staff are better able to get what they need, whether it is:

• Annual budget dollars to continue offering existing resources and service levels;
• Additional resource investment to expand service levels, program offerings and staffing complement;
• Active input and participation from business units in records management initiatives; and/or
• Formal executive endorsement of records management policies, tools and initiatives, in order to optimise business unit input and resource allocation.

In the ideal world, achieving these should be a simple matter of tying records management’s benefits to the broader business objectives of your organisation and making this value proposition clear to affected stakeholders. But what does this mean in a real world where records management competes for attention with a wide range of legal, financial and operational challenges?

The trick is to present records management as a valuable tool for meeting those same challenges. This understand how to situate records management in a broader business context, including tips on what issues to talk about, whom to talk to, and how to deliver the message of records management, download our free whitepaper here.