Mark Diamond wants you to stop thinking of records retention as a chore and start thinking of it as a driver of compliance. In this podcast the President & CEO of Contoural shares that retention schedules have grown in importance with increased requirements for privacy and safeguarding personal data. That, in turn, is having an enormous impact on the risks and costs of ediscovery.
Proper retention schedules also have significant impact on employee productivity and collaboration, as well as using AI in See more +
Mark Diamond wants you to stop thinking of records retention as a chore and start thinking of it as a driver of compliance. In this podcast the President & CEO of Contoural shares that retention schedules have grown in importance with increased requirements for privacy and safeguarding personal data. That, in turn, is having an enormous impact on the risks and costs of ediscovery.
Proper retention schedules also have significant impact on employee productivity and collaboration, as well as using AI in less risky ways.
Organizations are now increasingly treating records based on their business value and are developing retention schedules that reflect their worth.
One of the greatest challenges they face, though, is the tendency of employees to want to hold onto everything just in case. While it’s understandable, it adversely affects efficiency, as employees are forced to wade their way through obsolete records.
Part of the solution, he suggests, is to develop a “super schedule” for document retention. Rather than having multiple different policies which can cause confusion, having one overall policy vastly simplifies things for employees and allows for greater automation.
Listen in to learn more, but don’t retain this podcast longer than you should. See less -
