A Vision for ERM? Third AC+erm colloquium – Outputs

We have just posted some outputs from the third colloquium for the AC+erm Project to our website.

We would welcome any comments you may wish to make on these outputs or on any other aspect of the colloquia or the project as a whole.

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/diss/coll_diss/coll3_diss/

The third AC+erm colloquium focused on the ‘Systems and Technology’ facet of the project and was held on 24 September in the Merchants’ Hall in Edinburgh. Just under 30 delegates attended, adding to and extending the data from the e-Delphi data in a series of discussion forums.

The outputs from the colloquium consist of versions of the initial documents presented to the delegates, adapted to include their collated notes together with notes taken by the project team.

During the workshop, delegates also developed their ideas graphically; the outputs include images of these items.

The slides accompanying the project team’s presentations are also provided.

Forum 1
Delegates were asked to consider and comment on the full list of issues from the Systematic Literature Review and Systems and technology e-Delphi study, to add any issues they thought were missing, and to make any further comments or notes for discussion that they felt necessary.

Forum 2
Delegates examined proposed solutions to ‘Approaches to e-records management’, one of the five issues selected for further exploration in the colloquium.

Each group was allocated a single issue for discussion. Firstly, each delegate in the group completed a questionnaire (based on that used in Round 4 of the Systems and technology Delphi Study) in respect of one of the eight proposed solutions to the issue.

All delegates in the group then discussed the issue, electing one of their number as rapporteur to take notes and feed back briefly at the end of the discussion

Workshop
Delegates were divided into four groups, each of which was invited to draft a vision for e-records management.

The workshop activities were conducted using draft tools (vignettes) developed by the Project. The vignettes used were of three types—‘fridge phrases’, rich pictures, and narrative.

Each group as a whole drafted a vision for ERM. The whole group used the ‘Fridge Phrases’ tool to develop the vision and / or to articulate it more fully. They then went on to communicate the vision through rich pictures, narrative, or both.

The groups reported back their thoughts not only on the topic itself but also on the usefulness or otherwise of the vignettes as tools in this context.