FASTrack™ ESI Training
from FMDC
Executive Briefings and One-day
Courses designed to bring companies up to speed on ESI
Federal Courts now officially recognize Electronically Stored Information (ESI) as a separate class of evidence.
For many companies this will mean significant changes to their information handling practices. FMDC offers a suite of executive briefings and one-day, on-site courses, that address a wide array of the issues. The courses are designed to help attendees understand:
- What do the new rules mean to my company?
- What must we do that is different?
- What is the least expensive way to do it?
Executive ESI Briefing - We repeatedly find that companies struggle with executive sponsorship with some of the initiatives related to ESI. This briefing is designed to educate senior management about the issues and their importance in a very short period of time. It also looks at related ROI.
ESI Essentials for Legal, IT and HR - These three departments are at the core of the litigation related ESI issues. This one-day workshop brings IT, HR and Legal together to review ESI and all of its implications and to develop an alignment among them for how to address these issues.
Creating an ESI Plan - This course helps companies to quickly get up to speed on ESI issues and define their priorities for action. It is primarily for companies or departments that are just beginning to confront ESI requirements and need a general level of understanding to help them get started.
Archives Designed for Destruction - One of the problems that we regularly encounter at the companies we meet is concern about mountains of unnecessary data. They are concerned about the endless costs of keeping tapes that have little or no value. They are also concerned about keeping data that may harbor unnecessary risks. The course is a design-concepts workshop in ways to address the problems of re-architecting historical data retention.
Strategic Data Preparation - This is a litigation and regulatory retention focused workshop on how to plan for the management and handling of data in ways that minimize costs, meet regulatory requirements, enhance systems performance and support the requirements of litigation.
ROI for ESI - We have often said, "In ESI projects, funding is the first best practice." Many companies struggle with getting beyond recognizing the importance of ESI solutions because they cannot adequately justify the projects on a financial basis. FMDC has developed a robust methodology that helps build broadly based, enterprise-wide financial justification for information management projects. This workshop takes attendees through the steps to developing their own ROI.
Privacy Principles for ESI - While the courts have coined the acronym, ESI, electronic information has many other requirements, not the least of which is the protection of sensitive personal information. How do the privacy principles integrate with other ESI initiatives and what is the most effective way to address these matters. This workshop helps attendees see the issues from a wider perspective and find solutions.
ESI Regulatory Alignment - In most companies that we have met, there has been a misalignment of the handling of ESI with the handling of the company's physical records. Physical records retention schedules have been in existence for decades. They are well refined and fully developed. They also seldom translate to handling ESI. In the physical world each document (a physical thing) related to only a few subjects. Most of the time it is to only one. In the electronic world, files, tapes, disc systems have a wide collection of different topics, each with different handling (e.g. encryption, indexing, etc.) and retention requirements. This workshop examines the problems of aligning physical and electronic records management with the regulatory framework of the company.
Customized Workshops and Courses
For companies with multiple requirements of FMDC products, FMDC can design tailored programs and create integrated workshops to deliver important internal messages with critical content regarding regulatory and litigation requirements. Depending on the scope of the audience, these courses can be delivered as live onsite workshops, webinars, tutorials and internet-based CBT’s or podcasts.