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Records management services (RM), also known as Records information management or RIM, is the professional practice or discipline of controlling and governing what are considered to be the most important records of an organization throughout the records life-cycle, which includes from the time such records are conceived through to their eventual disposal. This work includes identifying, classifying, prioritizing, storing, securing, archiving, preserving, retrieving, tracking and destroying of records. The purpose of records management is part of an organization's broader activities that are associated with the discipline or field known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (or "GRC") and is primarily concerned with the evidence of an organization's activities as well as the reduction or mitigation of risk that may be associated with such evidence.
Corporate Memory is information of value for re-use. In determining whether to retain records and for how long, the value of the record for re-use should be an important criterion.

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