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COHASSET ASSOCIATES, INC. USA

(www. cohasset.com)

in Collaboration with

RIMA Foundation

Presents

RIMAW 2009 Pre-workshop Training Programme

in

Assured Records Management (ARM)
&
Data Analysis and Reporting

COHASSET ASSOCIATES

Now in its fourth decade of serving clients throughout the United States, Cohasset Associates provides award-winning professional services in three areas:
management consulting, education and publishing.

Management Consulting

The focus of Cohasset Associates’ consulting practice is improving the programs, processes, and systems that manage document-based information. This ranges from establishing effective corporate records management programs to planning state-of-the-art electronic records systems.

Using its unique combination of records management, legal, and technical skill sets, together with its extensive problem-solving experience, Cohasset Associates works to provide its clients with cost-effective solutions that will achieve their business objectives and meet their legal/regulatory responsibilities.

With its resident legal expertise, Cohasset Associates provides clients with relevant information to assist in reducing the regulatory and legal risks associated with the management of document-based information.

Education

The quality of Cohasset Associates’ educational work is recognized internationally. The knowledge imparted by Cohasset Associates at more than 1,000 professional seminars and conferences has assisted tens of thousands in improving the management of their document-based information.

Today, Cohasset Associates’ educational work is centered on its annual National Conference for Managing Electronic Records (MER) that focuses on the operational, technical, and legal issues associated with managing the complete life cycle of electronic records.

Cohasset Associates also brings the MER Conference to your desktop in streaming video format with StreaMER, available at the MER Education website.

COURSE OUTLINE

Assured Records Management (ARM)

Speaker – William S. Horn

Bill has more than 25 years of experience Records and Information Management and served as the Vice President of Records Management and Litigation Support at Fidelity Investments prior to joining the premier RIM consulting firm Cohasset Associates.

Attendees of this 2-day training course will learn to promote stakeholder buy-in to records management through step-wise continuous improvement strategies that are aligned with business priorities and are defensible in court.

Data Analysis and Reporting

Bill graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics as a Statistics major and later earned a Masters in Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has more than 25 years of experience Records and Information Management and served as the Vice President of Strategic Planning for Fidelity Investments’ back office operations. In that role he worked closely with Fidelity’s Finance, Operations, IT and Executive staff to develop annual business plans and budgets.

Attendees of this 2-day training course will receive comprehensive, end-to-end instruction on data analysis and reporting. This includes:

• Requirements Analysis
  • Analyzing the requestor’s motivation and defining the audience
  • Scope and time span
  • One-time decision analysis versus ongoing periodic reporting
  • Level of detail and accuracy
• Data Collection
  • Issues with historical data
  • Designing a data collection plan
  • Benchmarking
  • Privacy and security
  • Data definition inconsistencies
• Data Normalization
  • Standardizing units of measure
  • Adjusting for environmental conditions & significant events
  • Managing gaps in data
• Analysis
  • Statistical tools
  • Regression, sensitivity and trend analysis
  • Identification and treatment of outliers
  • Refining data collection
• Reporting
  • Maintaining data integrity
  • Usability
  • Privacy and security
  • Graphs and charts
• Presentation
  • Hypothesis
  • Presentation graphing
  • Pre-presentation review
  • Recommendations

For registration & details, please contact:The Training Coordinator, RIMA Foundation, 8, Association Avenue, Ilupeju Lagos. Email: training@rimaw.org,Tel: 018940451, 08023819008. Limited training slots available, register now!!!

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