State Records NSW

The New South Wales Government's Archives and Records Management Authority

Create and Capture - Guidelines on better recordkeeping
Section 2 - Assessing existing record creation and capture

2.4 Be aware of business problems and concerns

An awareness of issues and challenges faced by your organisation can be useful in identifying recordkeeping failures. For example, if there are frequent complaints or queries about records that cannot be located, it could be that the records were not captured into official systems or even not created in the first place. Furthermore, if you are aware that your organisation lost a legal challenge because it was unable to provide records that adequately defended its position, you could use this information to identify areas to focus on in order to improve record creation and capture.

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