Difference between revisions of "Records Management"
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| − | The ISO 15489-1: 2016 standard defines '''Records Management''' as “the field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records.” Record is a document or content that an [[Organization|organization]] needs to keep as an evidence for an important transaction, activity or a business decision for regulatory, [[Compliance|compliance]] and [[Governance|governance]] purposes. Not all documents are Records. Only a subset of documents that an organization needs to preserve as evidence are called Records. | + | The ISO 15489-1: 2016 standard defines '''Records Management''' as “the field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records.” Record is a document or content that an [[Organization|organization]] needs to keep as an evidence for an important transaction, activity or a business decision for regulatory, [[Compliance|compliance]] and [[Governance|governance]] purposes. Not all documents are Records. Only a subset of documents that an organization needs to preserve as evidence are called Records. Paper records may be stored in physical boxes on-premises or at a storage facility. Digital records may be stored on storage media in-house or in the cloud. |
Revision as of 01:47, 20 January 2021
The ISO 15489-1: 2016 standard defines Records Management as “the field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records.” Record is a document or content that an organization needs to keep as an evidence for an important transaction, activity or a business decision for regulatory, compliance and governance purposes. Not all documents are Records. Only a subset of documents that an organization needs to preserve as evidence are called Records. Paper records may be stored in physical boxes on-premises or at a storage facility. Digital records may be stored on storage media in-house or in the cloud.