When is this course scheduled in 2026? I would like to attend as from May 2026

Records Management is the backbone of efficiency, accountability, and good corporate governance. There can be no accountability without effective records management. As for the public sectors organization good records management helps uncover corruption. To ensure business continuity business critical records needs to be safeguarded but its value is least visible in most organization today.

The pandemic effectively served as a massive, unplanned stress test for organizational infrastructure. The "great divide" in performance during lockdowns was often determined by how a company managed its data before the crisis hit. Here is a breakdown of why Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS) and robust Records and Information Management (RIM) were the ultimate "survival kits": - Bridging the Physical-Digital Gap: Organizations reliant on physical files faced immediate operational paralysis when offices closed. Without a way to "take the filing cabinet home," tasks like processing invoices, signing contracts, or reviewing historical data became impossible without risky office visits. - Centralized "Single Source of Truth": In disorganized workplaces, documents are often scattered across local drives or buried in misnamed folders. EDRMS provided a centralized digital hub where employees could find what they needed in seconds via advanced search features, regardless of their physical location. - Security and Compliance at Scale: Moving to remote work increased risks like uncontrolled dissemination of information. EDRMS platforms allowed organizations to maintain strict access controls and audit trails, ensuring sensitive data remained protected even on home networks. - Workflow Automation: Beyond just storing files, these systems enabled automated workflows. Approvals that previously required physical signatures were transitioned to digital "click-to-approve" processes, maintaining operational speed even when teams were miles apart. - The "New Normal" Advantage: Today, these systems are no longer seen as a luxury but as a strategic necessity for operational resilience. They allow companies to recruit from a global talent pool and offer the flexibility employees now demand without sacrificing productivity. 

The purpose of RIM is to support day to day business operation, informed business decisions and planning, ensures smooth auditing be it financial or otherwise, and it is the backbone of transparency, accountability, efficiency and ultimately good governance. It also helps to uncover corruption.

@Paul Mullon This is why it is important to identity record series and at what point in the organization specifically each record series will be captured, the rest are declared as transitory copies and should never be filed

Version control is a serious challenge in my although we have introduced EDRMS, remote workspaces and shared drives almost make it difficult for version control, although EDRMS comes with version control functionality, the fact that most departments are still using other platform makes it difficult to control