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Corporate Information Management Services (CIMS) specialises in assisting organisations to better manage their archives, recods and information. We offer consulting, assesment & auditing and training services to organisations in all sectors and specialise in public sector and high regulated industries. Our core expertise are:

  • Archives administration, including
    • Establishing new archives
    • Reviewing archives programs, services and facilities
    • Developing policies, position decscriptions and procedures
    • Developing and reviewing plans
    • Developing and implementing archival management systems
    • Acquisition and transfer
    • Arrangement and description
    • Access and outreach services
    • Exhibitions, finding aids and histories
    • Digitisation and imaging
    • Disaster preparedness
    • Managing archives in multiple formas

 

  • Recordkeeping, including
    • Records retention and disposal schedules
    • Classification schemes and taxonomies
    • Recordkeeping compliance assessments and audits
    • Integrating recordkeeping into business processes
    • Metadata standards and guides
    • Recordkeeping polcies and standards
    • Recordkeeping business rules
    • Recordkeeping procedures, guidelines and work instructions
    • Recordkeeping in business information systems
    • eDRMS specifications, planning, implementation and review
    • Recordkeeping training needs analysis, programs and courses
    • Recordkeeping program design, implementation and review
    • Strategic and operational planning for recordkeeping

     

We also have strong capabilities in the following areas

  • Information management
  • Education and training in business and information management
  • Facilitation of meetings and workshops
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Change management
  • Conformance and performance audits and evaluations
  • Information governance and management
  • Information management maturity and capability modeling and evaluation
  • Policy and standards formulation, implementation and review
  • Process modeling and analysis
  • Project management
  • Requirements and specifications development and review for business information systems
  • Strategy development and planning
  • Stakeholder analysis and relationships management
  • Systems development, implementation and management
  • Workflow analysis and development

We pride ourselves in our integrity and work in the best interests of our clients.

Our approach is to work in partnership with our clients. We are information management experts and respect that our clients are experts in their business. Our aim is to leverage our collective expertise to collaboratively produce business-driven results that also meet compliance obligations within each organisation’s risk management regime.

While our services are unique to each client, where relevant we adhere to standards of best practice, including:

  • AS ISO 15489 Records Management
  • AS ISO 18492-2006 Long-term preservation of electronic document-based information
  • AS ISO 19005.1-2006 Document management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation - Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1)
  • AS 5037-2005 Knowledge management - a guide
  • AS ISO 23081.1-2006 Information and documentation - Records management processes - Metadata for records - Principles
  • AS 3806-2006 Compliance programs
  • AS/NZS ISO 23081.2:2007 Information and documentation - Records management processes - Metadata for records - Conceptual and implementation issues
  • AS 5044.1-2002 AGLS Metadata element set - Reference description
  • AS 5044.2-2002 AGLS Metadata element set - Usage guide
    AS/NZS  4360 Risk Management
  • AS 8000 Series on Good Governance
  • AS 8015-2005 Corporate governance of information and communication technology

We are highly familiar with the many pitfalls organisations may experience in their day-to-day and strategic management of information and the limitations of conventional approaches and technologies in addressing such challenges. We look beyond standards, technology and conventions. We proactively apply creative thinking techniques and work flexibly with our clients to develop solutions that address underlying business problems and leverage existing strengths.

We are independent of any product or supplier. We work cooperatively with each client’s suppliers and have experience in a variety of content management technologies.

CIMS consultants are professionally qualified and recognised through the various information management professional associations including:

  • The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
  • Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
  • Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
  • Association of Records Managers and Administrators, International (ARMA International)
  • Australian Society of Archivists Inc. (ASA)
  • Records Management Association of Australasia (RMAA)
  • Records Management Society (RMS)
  • Society of American Archivists (SAA)

Our consultants are experienced in a range of public, private and not-for-profit organisations, operating within the following areas:

  • Arts
  • Aviation
  • Child protection
  • Community services
  • Employment and industrial relations
  • Engineering
  • Financse
  • Heritage
  • Health – hospitals, aged care and first aid
  • Information technology
  • Infrastructure - ports, railways and roads
  • Government – state, local and federal
  • Professional associations
  • Regulation
  • Shared Services
  • Transport
  • Universities
  • Water

We are energised by challenges and variety and are keen to work with organisations in these and other areas.

Business Registration Details

ABN: 18 050 342 987

ACN: 127570781