If knowledge is Power, then a poorly managed record keeping system makes your organization as powerful as a limp noodle. Think about it – you can’t wield power that you don’t know you have. If you can’t find the information, then you can’t use it…

If a supplier threatens to stop shipment on a crucial delivery for your next production cycle – your POWER is the record that proves you paid for those parts in full.
If an employee launches a wrongful termination suit – your POWER lies in the records that prove he was habitually late and downloaded pornography on his company computer.
If the Federal government launches an investigation into some questionable activity on the part of your former CEO – your POWER is the retention schedule that legally allowed you to destroy his interoffice memos two months ago.
  FAST FACTS
  The average executive spends over 3 hours per week looking for lost records
     
  A proper retention program minimizes your legal exposure by allowing you to destroy records systematically and legally
     
  Handling and maintaining records accounts for 20-45% of an organization’s labor cost and 12-15% of their expenses
     
  If you scribble in the margins of an interoffice memo, you have created a new record that has its own retention schedule
     

These scenarios may seem like no-brainers, but the reality is that the average employee doesn’t know what records are valuable and which ones will pose a liability in the future. And many organizations are hampered by ineffective filing systems that eat up valuable manpower on futile searches for elusive records.

 

We’re here to tell you that you can create order out of filing chaos. Take a look at our site to see how TDC can help your organization achieve practical, long-term results that work for you all day every day. You can start right now by using our Request for Information Form to let us know what your RIM needs are.

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