Compu-Stor Survey: Tackling Records Management Challenges

  • Compu-Stor Survey: Tackling Records Management Challenges in 2024

  • This short 10-min survey is intended to provide useful insights and a support to Records Managers and Decision Makers to clearly frame the upcoming records management challenges in 2024 and beyond, and provide a basis for discussion and to tackle them in the upcoming webinar entitled ‘Tackling Records Management challenges to shift the needle in 2024 - a cross-organisation challenge!’.

    A summary of this survey will be made available to participants following the webinar. The survey results will be anonymised before any reports are shared.

    Please complete the sections relevant to your Records Management challenges. Thank you.

  • Section 1: Ranking the key challenges for your organisation in 2024

  • Please select the top 3 records management challenges that your organisation faces in 2024:*

  • In the next part of this survey we would like to briefly delve deeper on each of your 3 top challenges. You will be taken through these 6 challenges one by one. Simply skip the non-relevant challenges/sections and answer the relevant challenges/sections – thank you.

  • Section 2: Compliance & legal risks

    Please complete this section if it is one of the top 3 challenges you selected for your organisation in 2024, otherwise please skip to the next section/challenge by selecting 'YES' in this ‘Skip’ box below and pressing the ‘Next’ button at the end of the page:
  • Top issues: What are the biggest issues you expect to face in meeting legal and compliance requirements for records management in 2024?
  • Potential Impacts: If these challenges remain unaddressed, what are the potential consequences for your organization?
  • Effectiveness: b. What are the limitations or gaps?
  • Next Steps: What are your planned initiatives or priorities for improving compliance and risk management in records management over the next year?

  • Section 3: Business continuity & disaster recovery

    Please complete this section if it is one of the top 3 challenges you selected for your organisation in 2024, otherwise please skip to the next section/challenge by selecting 'YES' in this ‘Skip’ box below and pressing the ‘Next’ button at the end of the page:
  • Top issues: What are the 2-3 biggest issues you expect to face in managing your business continuity & disaster recovery for records management in 2024?
  • Potential Impacts: If these challenges remain unaddressed, what are the potential consequences for your organization?
  • Effectiveness: b. What are the limitations or gaps?
  • Next Steps: What are your planned initiatives or priorities for improving business continuity & disaster recovery concerning your organisation’s records over the next year?

  • Section 4: Information security

    Please complete this section if it is one of the top 3 challenges you selected for your organisation in 2024, otherwise please skip to the next section/challenge by selecting 'YES' in this ‘Skip’ box below and pressing the ‘Next’ button at the end of the page:
  • Top issues: What are the 2-3 biggest issues you expect to face in managing the security of your records in 2024?
  • Potential Impacts: If these security challenges remain unaddressed, what are the potential consequences for your organization?
  • Effectiveness: b. What are the limitations or gaps?
  • Next Steps: What are your planned initiatives or priorities for improving information security for your organisation’s records over the next year?

  • Section 5: Difficulties with legacy systems

    Please complete this section if it is one of the top 3 challenges you selected for your organisation in 2024, otherwise please skip to the next section/challenge by selecting 'YES' in this ‘Skip’ box below and pressing the ‘Next’ button at the end of the page:
  • Top issues: What are the 2-3 biggest issues you expect to face with your legacy systems to manage your records in 2024?
  • Potential impacts: If these legacy system challenges remain unaddressed, what are the potential consequences for your organization?
  • Effectiveness: b. What are the limitations or gaps?
  • Next Steps: What are your planned initiatives or priorities for improving your organisation’s legacy systems to better manage your records over the next year?

  • Section 6: Training on new technologies and the future eg AI

    Please complete this section if it is one of the top 3 challenges you selected for your organisation in 2024, otherwise please skip to the next section/challenge by selecting 'YES' in this ‘Skip’ box below and pressing the ‘Next’ button at the end of the page:
  • Top Issues: What are the 2-3 biggest issues you expect to face with regard to new technologies for managing your records in 2024?
  • Potential impacts: If these challenges related to new technologies remain unaddressed, what are the potential consequences for your organization?
  • Effectiveness: b. What are the limitations or gaps?
  • Next Steps: What are your planned initiatives or priorities for improving your organisation’s use of new technologies to better manage your records over the next year?

  • Section 7: Internal culture/communication/training across organisations – getting the necessary support

    Please complete this section if it is one of the top 3 challenges you selected for your organisation in 2024, otherwise please skip to the next section/challenge by selecting 'YES' in this ‘Skip’ box below and pressing the ‘Next’ button at the end of the page:
  • Top issues: What are the 2-3 biggest issues you expect to face with regard to internal culture/communication/training across the organisation to get the necessary support you need for managing your organisation’s records in 2024?
  • Potential impacts: If these challenges related to internal culture/communication/training remain unaddressed, what are the potential consequences for your organization?
  • Effectiveness: b. What are the limitations or gaps?
  • Next Steps: What are your planned initiatives or priorities for improving your organisation’s use of new technologies to better manage your records over the next year?

  • Free webinar and free guide

  • Would you like to register for the upcoming FREE webinar entitled ‘Tackling Records Management challenges to shift the needle in 2024 - a cross-organisation challenge!’ on Wednesday 27th March 2024 at 11am AEDT. This Webinar will bring together a mix of Records Managers, Decision-Makers and Experts from the Records Management industry, who will use the insights from this survey to help debate & identify potential options to tackling these Records Management Challenges in 2024.*
  • Are you interested in a free personalised guide with concrete recommendations for your specific organisation on how best to tackle these Record Management challenges in 2024 (see conditions below*)? *

  • *FREE PERSONALISED GUIDE: Compu-Stor’s consultant, armed with the detailed survey results and their Records Management expertise, will hold a 1-hr meeting face-to-face or via video call, with yourself (the Records Manager), and at least one key decision-maker from within your organisation, to discuss how best to tackle your organisation’s specific key records management challenges in 2024 (The Records Manager and their Decision-Maker need to have completed the survey beforehand). Within a week following the meeting, you will receive a bespoke guide with the key records management challenges your organisation is facing in 2024 and how best to tackle them for your organisation. Offer ends 31/05/2024.

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