<p>In the last post, I called it like I seen it: SharePoint out of the box can't do records management. 2007, 2010, 2013 none of 'em left to their own devices are worth much when it comes to automating the retention and (more importantly) disposition of your records according to the retention schedule.</p><p>But as if that weren't provocative enough, I also argued that, regardless of system (SharePoint, IBM FileNet/P8/CMOD, EMC Documentum, OpenText, Hyland OnBase, whatever), and regardless of the capabilities of that system, pretty much no one is actually doing real records management on their electronic content.</p><p>Check out the last post to see my reasoning for this being true (and let me know what you think of it). In this post, however, let's turn to what might be driving the fact that almost no one is doing electronic records management (whether in SharePoint or any other enterprise content management system).If Only Technology Were the Problem</p><p>I find myself saying this a lot in my day-to-day travels as a strategy consultant focused on ECM, but it's especially true of automated records management. Here's why.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/sharepoint-or-no-organizations-need-to-rethink-approach-to-records-management-020430.php">Keep reading...</a></p>