For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals (Length: 11 pages)

September 24, 2007

eDiscovery Best Practices

Six Things You Can Do To Optimize eDiscovery Efforts

by Barry Murphy

with Kyle McNabb, Diana Levitt


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

eDiscovery scares organizations, plain and simple, largely due to a lack of well-accepted best practices. As eDiscovery became a hot topic over the past year, several smart tactics to employ and common mistakes to avoid emerged. Information and knowledge management professionals should learn how their peers create central views of information to make eDiscovery more efficient, as well as watch how strategies like "archive everything" have failed and created further eDiscovery problems.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemeDiscovery Fears Abound

itemSix Things You Can Do To Keep Fear From Paralyzing You

itemStop Ignoring The eDiscovery Problem

itemDo Not Believe In The "Archive Everything" Approach

itemSimplify And Automate Retention Policies

itemCentralize, Centralize, Centralize Views Of Information

itemUse Technology To Educate The Business About Information Retention And Classification

itemAvoid Executing In A Vacuum

itemEstablish A Dedicated Team For Retention Management

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itemLearn From The Mistakes Others Have Made

WHAT IT MEANS

itemBest Practices Have Emerged — They Will Evolve Quickly

Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with more than 30 end user organizations. All wish to remain anonymous due to the very confidential nature of programs that relate in any way to litigation.

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