Organizations in both Public and Private sectors today face major challenges associated with Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance. These regulations are pervasive and affect all entities regardless of business type or industry. Successful solutions to implement electronic records management should augment and not reengineer existing processes.
Clients engaging Beach Street's Records Management Services realize the following benefits:
- Mitigation of risk by effective records retention and disposition
- Reduction in the costs associated with Compliance
- Reduction in the costs associated with Discovery process
- Empowering users to focus on work products and not compliance through business process to records automation
Beach Street thinks strategically and acts tactically to provide rapid solutions to Records Management and eDiscovery Challenges. With our proven approach and experience working with many of our clients, we minimize the time to value involved in the implementation of Records Management related systems.
To learn how we have successfully partnered with our clients in the records management arena and how we can help your company, contact us.
Major challenges exist in designing a Records Management (RM) solution including:
- What is a record?
- How am I in violation of existing regulations?
- What are my current retention policies and how can I use technology to help enforce them?
- How do I dispose of records?
- How do I comply with eDiscovery?
Beach Street's Records Management Services offers customers an inclusive Records Management methodology focused on compliance but with end user participation at the core. In short, business users shouldn't need to consider records policies when conducting day-to-day operations. Rather, Records Management technology should be implemented with out impact to the end user communities it supports:
The Streetwise™ approach for Records Management implementation includes the following high-level steps:
- Records Policy research and resultant Records Inventory
- Development of Electronic Records procedures and creation of File Plan
- Creation of Retention Policy system configurations
- Configuration of Business Focused Content Management functions
- Automation of the records declaration between business and records functions
For examples of how our clients have benefited from working with Beach Street's Records Management Services, we hope you'll read through some of our case studies below: