Record Keeping Directive Compliance Action Plan

What is the Business Need?
Compliance with Treasury Board's Record-Keeping Directive is required for all departments and is evaluated by a series of questions within the Management Accountability Framework (MAF). This project requires in-depth communication, high-quality planning, engagement, risk management and project management excellence to deliver results.
Reference: The Record-Keeping Directive, Treasury Board Secretariat

How much will it cost to achieve compliance with the RK Directive? How much time will it take?
Each department is treating 'compliance with the RK Directive' as a project. The average total project cost ranges between $5-8 million for a large department (over 8,000 staff) and $1-3million for organizations under that level. In each project, the department used at least 40% of that budget to procure additional support using professional service contracts.A project of this size will require a minimum of 9 months and up to 24 months to reach compliance with the directive. Keep in mind that this directive requires an in-depth engagement and tasking to ALL of an organization's program areas - do not underestimate the breadth and depth of TBS's expectations to comply.

The Complete Package!

The 'Complete Package' provides you and your team with everything you need to deliver with excellence.  This package includes the 'Executive Leader's Insight Guide'  and a FULL project management action plan with tools, templates and job aids (actual Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files) - everything you will need to deliver.

The package is delivered immediately to you and includes our most sought after products; communications plan, project team tasking table and the risk management table.  This plan is packed with value guaranteed to save you time, money and will give you the professional edge of a rising star.
The 5 big reasons to buy this plan...
  1. Time to Act: Demonstrable compliance takes time. Anyone who is serious about delivering on this commitment should buy this plan as time is running out.  You are NOT starting from scratch, but instead leveraging the best practices, real tools/templates and applying project management excellence used in the past 24 months.
  2. The Plan has Big Time Value: We conservatively estimate this plan will save you more than 4 months of project planning ($100,000+ in consultant services). You will have a clear methodology, be amply resourced with high-quality products and be well positioned to lead.
  3. The Plan is Relevant: . The requirements from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) are the same for all departments and agencies. The project plan is designed specifically for achieving compliance with the government of Canada's RK Directive and leverage our experience helping government departments achieve compliance. 
  4. Your Reputation: This plan will not only make you look like a pro, but give you the confidence to make better informed decisions and achieve more than anyone else and lead an enterprise wide project. This plan will put you in the driver's seat and people will take notice of the powerful logic of your vision.
  5. Your Element of Surprise: You do NOT need a background in information management or records management practices with this plan. When you show up at meetings with the knowledge of the requirement, knowledge of the risks/barriers and a contagious vision... management will take notice.  The best part is you can choose to share these tools or keep this as your own secret advantage. 

Who should buy this plan?
Whether you are already moving or have begun the planning process, this plan is for you. This plan is designed to help executives, program managers and project managers understand the common road ahead, accelerate execution and deliver results. You do NOT need a background in Information Management or Records Management practices with this plan. It is written in plain language and give you everything you need to make sense of the requirement and deliver visible results.

The Insight Guide for Executives & Managers

Did you know that nearly 80% of departments seeking RK Directive compliance are unsure where to begin? Did you know several IM/IT related projects are/will be running parallel and are competing for the same resources you will need to deliver on this project? Namely GCDocs, Email Transformation, shared drive clean-up and others. The Insight Guide is a manager's handbook for understanding what is expected to achieve compliance with TBS's RK Directive despite these obstacles and interdependencies. 

Organized in easy-to-read chapters with graphics and workflows, this guide offers special sections on lessons learned from real government projects (failures and successes), case studies that cover project management issues you should expect to encounter, communication strategies, recommendations on building your team to deliver through to the end, how to control the scope of the project and more. In short, this guide is a real insiders guide to the context of reaching RK Compliance and is an essential input to planning your department's project.

This guide is a must have for any executive leading a program area to RK Compliance.

The Beginner's Guide
(The budget option, but its still great!)

It is important to make sure the guide is not undervalued. The guide contains the objectives, outlines barriers to success, an engagement strategy, reporting strategy and much more. You will be referring back to the best practices in this guide for the duration of this compliance initiative. So, if a budget is an issue, I highly recommend getting the guide by itself. You won't regret it.