I think back to the discussions at the ARMA Calgary board level - "Should we do a CRM workshop or not??" I knew that there were a couple of interested people but that was about it. Now the workshop is completely full! Congrats and thanks to all of those that registered. If you were thinking about it and waited too long - I'm sorry. Please let me know one way or another and it will help to guide us in how soon we offer the workshop again.
And now I will take this opportunity to soapbox (cue heavy sighs). I have always felt that the CRM designation, and the knowledge and experience that comes with it, is forward looking, not backwards looking. If you wear your CRM designation as badge of the bygone era of paper management, you're unfortunately missing its point. The CRM prepares us for the future, and for the storm of information change that we're already in. There was no way to predict the impact that personal computers would have on information management in the 80's and 90's. There was no way to predict the impact of the internet in the 2000's, or of social media or mobile computing more recently. There is no way to predict what else is coming around the corner - be it AI or quantum computing or blockchain or something else. What we DO know is this: organizations need people who understand the fundamental risks and requirements of information, no matter its form, and how those risks and requirements are managed. I constantly go back to the generally-accepted recordkeeping principles and consider how they are fundamental to all eras of IM.
Soapboxing is done... go forth and manage. :)
Wayne Hoff, CRM, IGP
ICRM Liaison
ARMA Calgary
icrmrep@armacalgary.org
