Este 21 de octubre se ha realizado una nueva edición de Documadrid 09, que ha registrado un importante éxito en cuando a ponentes y visitantes. Desde la organización damos las gracias a todos los colaboraciones que se concentraron en este importante evento sobre gestión documental.
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Interview to Hanns Köhler-Krüner, director Global Education Services – AIIM – EMEA Interviewe: María del Valle Palma Villalón, directora of Observatorio de Documentación Digital – AedocDigital y directora of Consultoría y Formación – Docugrupo.
Interview also in spanish.

You are an AIIM Industry Advisor and Director. AIIM is the leading international association for companies involved in the management of content and documents. Can tell us which are the main objectives and functions of AIIM?
AIIM represents the Information Management community as the global association for both users and suppliers of Enterprise Content Management solutions – the strategies, services and technologies which enable organizations to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information to support business processes. We have existed for more than 60 years, and we are a not-for-profit organization. To fulfill these objectives we are involved in standards work, in tradeshows, seminars and other events and we provide professional development for members and non-members.

You are the current General Secretary of the DLM Forum. Can tell us what the DLM Forum is?
Created by an initiative of the EC, the DLM Forum is a community of Public Archives and interested parties in archive, records and document and information lifecycle management throughout the EU. The DLM Forum supported the creating of MoReq2 as a European standard

Also, you are the Director Global Education Services EMEA. What does EMEA stand for?
EMEA stands for Europe, Middle-East and Africa, it is the region of my responsibility.

As you are an expert in content and records management. Do you think that the management of content and records should be aligned with the business and systems requirements of a company?. How do you produce ERM (Electronics Records Management) requirements?
The first part of your question is easy to answer. If business and system requirements and content and records management are not aligned the whole project or program will end up being a failure. You need to know where your business is going, what process are active, where content is being created and consumed and then decide on the best strategy to deal with both unstructured content as well as the needs of Records Management. As for producing these, we teach a 2 day course on this, so it is a little hard to put this into a single sentence. I would start with a thorough analysis of your organization, who is doing what, where and most importantly… why.
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