I've had a chance to play with my blogging and have a new site with my own url. Here's the link to the site, since this one will disappear sometime in February. I have saved the first comment received to my question on the ARMA International Strategic Plan, so I'll keep that for our input later this year~!
New Link: http://www.rimthought.com/
Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+
Monday, January 7, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
ARMA Strategic Plan
Happy 2008! I’m going to try something new for me that others have attempted as well – a blog. Hopefully, as I continue to be involved with ARMA International and with Records and Information Management (R.I.M.), this blog will prove useful for my continuing education and will be useful to those who regard our endeavor as a profession and as a calling. This first “real posting” is quite specific – I promise, though to mix some more general discussions in with some of the specific topics over the next 12 months or so.
This first serious posting focuses on the specifics of ARMA International’s Strategic Plan. As an ARMA Board member, this is one of the topics on which I focus. It’s important…or should be…to ARMA members because it drives how we spend member dues money and other Association revenue. It drives the budgeting process, the activities of our talented staff and the focus of our volunteer leaders.
ARMA International has engaged in a Strategic Planning process for a number of years. That process has grown more rigorous over time and has been designed to guide the Association’s efforts to serve its members and to serve the broader community of Records and Information Management professionals. Any ARMA member wishing to read through the specifics relating to the plan can find it on the ARMA web site at:
http://www.arma.org/myarma/governance/strategicplan.cfm?key=strategy . On that site, ARMA International members can read through the Association’s Vision, it’s Mission and its Goals, as well as gaining an understanding of the issues which we face as R.I.M. professionals, and how ARMA International addresses those issues through its Strategic Initiatives, and its Operational Plans. You’ll note that the Association focuses on our community as a profession, not as an “industry”.
The Association’s planning process requires substantial member input. That input is geither through formalized surveys of its members and through less formal requests for member input. This year the focus will be on that less formal input from our membership. That effort is now underway, and the Board of Directors will revisit its current Strategic Plan during the summer of 2008.
I am taking advantage of this as an opportunity to ask the five key questions on this blog as a means of continuing to gather information from ARMA members. I would like to encourage anyone reading this posting to respond to it, and to leave me with their thoughts on any or all of the questions noted below.
Ok, here are the questions:
(1) As an ARMA member, how do you determine ARMA International’s success with regard to standards development, R.I.M. awareness and education?
(2) Do you agree that standards, R.I.M. awareness and education should be ARMA International’s top priorities? If not, what should be?
(3) What other issues affecting the R.I.M. profession should be considered (for the radar screen)?
(4) What do you think are the appropriate levels of communication re: strategies, products and services? If not, how could we better communicate?
(5) What effect does the global business environment have on you and your organization?
Ok, those are the questions. For anyone who would like to respond, feel free to do so here. Also feel free, if you would prefer to send an email note to me at doug.allen@global360.com.
This first serious posting focuses on the specifics of ARMA International’s Strategic Plan. As an ARMA Board member, this is one of the topics on which I focus. It’s important…or should be…to ARMA members because it drives how we spend member dues money and other Association revenue. It drives the budgeting process, the activities of our talented staff and the focus of our volunteer leaders.
ARMA International has engaged in a Strategic Planning process for a number of years. That process has grown more rigorous over time and has been designed to guide the Association’s efforts to serve its members and to serve the broader community of Records and Information Management professionals. Any ARMA member wishing to read through the specifics relating to the plan can find it on the ARMA web site at:
http://www.arma.org/myarma/governance/strategicplan.cfm?key=strategy . On that site, ARMA International members can read through the Association’s Vision, it’s Mission and its Goals, as well as gaining an understanding of the issues which we face as R.I.M. professionals, and how ARMA International addresses those issues through its Strategic Initiatives, and its Operational Plans. You’ll note that the Association focuses on our community as a profession, not as an “industry”.
The Association’s planning process requires substantial member input. That input is geither through formalized surveys of its members and through less formal requests for member input. This year the focus will be on that less formal input from our membership. That effort is now underway, and the Board of Directors will revisit its current Strategic Plan during the summer of 2008.
I am taking advantage of this as an opportunity to ask the five key questions on this blog as a means of continuing to gather information from ARMA members. I would like to encourage anyone reading this posting to respond to it, and to leave me with their thoughts on any or all of the questions noted below.
Ok, here are the questions:
(1) As an ARMA member, how do you determine ARMA International’s success with regard to standards development, R.I.M. awareness and education?
(2) Do you agree that standards, R.I.M. awareness and education should be ARMA International’s top priorities? If not, what should be?
(3) What other issues affecting the R.I.M. profession should be considered (for the radar screen)?
(4) What do you think are the appropriate levels of communication re: strategies, products and services? If not, how could we better communicate?
(5) What effect does the global business environment have on you and your organization?
Ok, those are the questions. For anyone who would like to respond, feel free to do so here. Also feel free, if you would prefer to send an email note to me at doug.allen@global360.com.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
First Posting - Open Discussion
This will serve as my first posting..... As a Director on the ARMA International Board of Directors, I have a great interest in learning more about what others think about a wide variety of Records and Information Management topics. I'll do some posting regarding some of the issues of the day, as they relate to the profession and as they relate to ARMA International - but be advised that I don't speak FOR ARMA International, I'm one of 16 Board members, and only the ARMA International President can speak for the Association!
As I launch this effort, I have absolutely no idea where it may lead, if anywhere, but I am interested in fairly open discussion, and hope that something that appears here will be of value to others!
Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+
As I launch this effort, I have absolutely no idea where it may lead, if anywhere, but I am interested in fairly open discussion, and hope that something that appears here will be of value to others!
Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+
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