What Counts?
Welcome to What Counts? by TrailBlazer Consulting. The hosts, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas bring over 30 years of experience consulting with public and private organizations across industries including energy, biotech, manufacturing, and technology. We discuss proven solutions developed working with companies to solve their information and data management challenges. The typical What Counts? episode is around 15 minutes long, and each episode focuses on one aspect of information, data, or records management. We provide insight into practical ways to assess, evaluate, recommend, implement, and monitor records and information management programs – and we illustrate our ideas with anecdotes and case studies drawn from our clients. Look us up on the web at www.TrailBlazer.us.com. Or, send us an email at [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Policy Rollout Best Practices - E043
Each episode contains powerful information to help improve the visibility of your information governance program and increase its effectiveness across your organization.
00:13:36 |
Mon 21 Nov 2022
The Importance of Connecting Information Classification with Records Retention - E042
2022 Episode 42 – Connecting information classification with your organization’s records retention schedule can help protect high risk records. Selecting the correct classification levels and applyin…
00:16:19 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
How to Create a Practical Records Retention Schedule - E041
2022 Episode 41 – Creating a practical records retention schedule for your organization to implement should not be a complicated endeavor. More and more, organizations are encountering challenges to …
00:18:54 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Practical Policy Implementation - E040
2022 Episode 40 – Policy implementation is made easier when policies contain the “what needs to happen” and procedures contain the “how to make it happen”. Both work best when policy creation becomes…
00:15:48 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
How Has Policy Development Evolved? - E039
2022 Episode 39 – Policy development has evolved over time. There are some do’s and don’ts in this episode that you should know. We look at how policies have evolved over time and how to best develop…
00:22:23 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
The Importance of Asset Data Management - Part 2 - E038
2022 Episode 38 – Tracking asset data is essential for making informed decisions. Does your company keep asset data in separate siloed systems? Are manual processes needed to link the appropriate ass…
00:19:58 |
Mon 12 Sep 2022
The Importance of Asset Data Management - Part 1 - E037
2022 Episode 37 – Do you have a document management problem or an asset data management problem? If your organization is not able to accurately trace the business case for capital investments backwar…
00:21:28 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
The Importance of Using Your Project Champion Network Correctly
2022 Episode 36 – Your project champion network is one of the most vital components to successful implementation of an […]
00:15:20 |
Mon 15 Aug 2022
The Importance of Using Your Project Champions Correctly - E036
2022 Episode 36 – Your project champions are one of the most vital components to successful implementation of an information governance project. As noted in this episode, project champions are typica…
00:15:20 |
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Three Key Steps to Achieving Organizational Change - E035
2022 Episode 35 – This episode points out three key steps to achieving organizational change and using your champion network effectively. This is What Counts, by TrailBlazer Consulting, LLC, a podcas…
00:11:02 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
Donna V.: Steps to Take to Achieve Successful Training - E034
2022 Episode 34 – Using training to implement change management seems logical. What type of training best fits your organization’s learning style? What kind of training is available; who is your audi…
00:17:28 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Using Your Project Plan As A Communication Tool - E033
2022 Episode 33 – This is our fourth episode in a series on using change management to help improve your chances for successful information governance project implementation. Today, we talk about usi…
00:14:44 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Creative Change Management - E032
2022 Episode 32 – This is our third episode in a series on using change management to help move your information governance projects forward. We continue our conversation with Donna Vitalie to uncove…
00:16:48 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Change Management - A Tool In Your Toolbox - E031
2022 Episode 31 – This is our second episode in a series on using change management to help move your information governance projects forward. Today, we welcome Donna Vitalie to the conversation to h…
00:12:46 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
Change Management - Linking Assessment Questions - E030
2022 Episode 30 – This is the first episode in a series on change management approaches we have used to implement successful information governance projects. Remember back to Episode 3. That’s where …
00:13:46 |
Mon 23 May 2022
Monitoring Project Progress - E029
2022 Episode 29 – Monitoring progress, showing immediate impact, and keeping stakeholders engaged is an important part of project status reporting. In this episode, we discuss a few ways for measurin…
00:16:51 |
Mon 09 May 2022
Knowledge Transfer Process - E028
2022 Episode 28 – Hey, who was that person that worked on the customization of XYZ software? Who was the vendor that made the decision to fill in the requirements gaps during the implementation proce…
00:15:52 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
Risk Management - A Key Project Management Tool - E027
2022 Episode 27 – Taking a risk management approach to project planning. Thinking through large-scale risks and assigning cost to those risks will help focus resource allocation in your project plan.…
00:14:15 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Key Resources To Have On Your IG Team - E026
2022 Episode 26 – Internal and external key resources to have on your team to get your information governance (IG) projects completed. From IT to Legal, but more importantly, the business side of you…
00:14:50 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Building a Project Plan For Information Governance Projects - E025
2022 Episode 25 – In this episode, we discuss developing a detailed project plan for implementing your information governance projects. From simple to complex projects, learn certain activities and t…
00:15:20 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
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