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Records Management Trivia |
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One study found that in a single
year records management saved a university $667,882
in source and filing equipment alone – after subtracting
the program’s budget.
(http://www.theimpros.com/im/case.html)
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83% of all business documents consist
of forms. Businesses spend $1 billion a year designing
and printing forms but $25-35 billion a year filing,
storing and retrieving them, and some $65-85 billion
processing, maintaining and distributing them.
(The myth of the paperless office 2002)
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In trying to resurrect Iraq’s
Oil Industry, authorities discovered that seismic charts
for 200,000 kilometres were destroyed. Each chart cost
approximately $15,000 to create. The value of the records?
$3 billion.
(Newsweek July, 2003)
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