GARP ® Education

Information is one of the most vital, strategic assets organizations possess. Learn how proper information governance practices can help your organization be more competitive, compliant, and thrive in the face of information challenges with these educational opportunities:

Taking A Closer Look - ARMA International’s Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles SM

NEW! Essentials of GARP® Certificate

The “Essentials of GARP® Certificate” combines a wealth of real-world insights and expertise into one valuable package. The certificate program consists of 3 online courses, 2 web seminars, and multiple GARP® publications that show how the principles represent years and years of accepted best practices. Learn how to apply GARP® to identify and address gaps in your information governance program and to prepare it for virtually any legal challenge.

Online Course: GARP® and Legally Defensible Information Governance

This course illustrates how GARP® complements the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and how information management isn’t just a step in e-discovery but rather an ongoing process managed by best practices. The course reviews each principle and uses case law to illustrate how GARP® conformity could have protected organizations from sanctions and admonishment.
Price: Member: $74, Non-member: $104

Online Course: Introduction to the GARP® Principles

This online introduction course focuses on the importance of each GARP ® principle and how you can integrate each into your RIM program. The course will also provide you vital facts that you can take back to executive-level managers, who may be unfamiliar with the benefits of RIM, but need to be familiar with GARP ® and the benefits to your organization - as well as the perils of ignoring them. You will learn why the principles are a standard of excellence for records systems and why your organization should regard GARP ® compliance as a holistic organizational imperative – and a mandate for better information governance. Approximately 4 hours.
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.5
Price: Member: $150, Non-member: $210

Online Course: Applying GARP ® to Achieve Organizational Excellence

This course provides first-hand, real-world guidance from an experienced Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles® (GARP®) consultant on how to use the eight principles and the GARP® Maturity Model to identify your records and information management program’s risks, gaps, and desired outcomes. It demonstrates how GARP® compliance can help safeguard organizations from the kinds of regulatory and ethical dilemmas that can ultimately shut a organization’s doors.

“Leveraging GARP® to Achieve Organizational Excellence” explains in detail which principles to address first and where you should allocate your budget dollars and resources as you work to become GARP® compliant. It uses real-world scenarios to illustrate how important context is when it comes to a GARP® analysis.Learn how to package GARP® as part of your professional policy and use it to engage your senior management. See the common missteps that organizations make – and the disastrous consequences that can result – when organizations fail to conform to GARP®.

This online course is full of practical, real-world solutions you can put to work immediately within your organization. Each section contains learning objectives, audio, video, and review questions, as well as printable course notes for easy offline reading and review. Approximately 5 hours.

ICRM Maintenance Credits: Pending Approval
Price: Member: $299 Non-member: $415

Keynote Presentation: GARP ® Task Force Panel

In this keynote panel discussion, you'll hear perspectives and viewpoints from the task force responsible for encapsulating the principles. The task force, a who's-who of the information management world, will discuss how professionals can best leverage the principles within their organizations, how they envision the evolution of the principles, and why the world is ready to listen now more than ever.
Facilitator: Gartner Analyst Debra Logan.
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $0

Applying GARP® to Cloud Computing from Business, IT, & Legal Perspectives
Using the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles® (GARP®) as a framework, you will learn how IT, legal, and business units make decisions relating to cloud computing. Hear the IT side of the story from the records and information management perspective, as well as specific questions you should ask your IT staff about cloud computing. As IT moves records from one server to another they are not fully aware of the importance of properly protecting those records. From the legal perspective, cloud computing poses privacy, e-discovery, and security risks. IT often believes cloud computing is a win-win, but they’ve failed to consider the risks associated with records management. The business perspective will include procurement and concerns to address in an IT contract to safeguard records. You’ll return to your organization equipped to use the GARP® principles and ready to discuss with IT, legal, and business units the critical issues related to cloud computing. View this session now.
 
Domain: Information Technology  
Level: 4
Facilitators: Rick Stirling and Martin Susec, CRM, JD, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

RIM Performance Standards: Using GARP® and Assured Records Management (ARM) Methodology
Records and information management (RIM) standards and best practices establish organizational goals for excellence in information governance. In this session, learn how specific RIM tools, such as ARMA International’s Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles® (GARP®) and Cohasset Associate’s Assured Records Management (ARM) methodology, can be used to implement information governance within your organization to achieve the right mix of “great” and “good enough” – supporting the legal tests of good faith and reasonability.

Explore how each of the GARP® principles helps you identify and measure appropriate RIM goals, and how the ARM methodology will help establish GARP® within your organization. Each step of the way, “the judge” will be asked whether this approach would be viewed as reasonable by the courts.

Whether you are just getting started with your RIM program or facing the challenges of improving an existing program, this session will help you learn to these valuable RIM tools. View this session now.

Domain: Business Functions   
Level: 3
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1
Facilitators: Galina Datskovsky, Ph.D., CRM, Ronald Hedges, Marcia Zweerink
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP® for Business: What's in It for Us and the Organization? – GARP®: On the Front Page series

Facilitator: Rick Stirling
ICRM Maintenance Credits:1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: Employing GARP®: Requirements for Electronic Records Management – GARP® On the Front Page Series

Facilitator: Jason C. Stearns, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: Employing GARP®: Practices for Electronic Records Management - GARP® On the Front Page Series

Facilitator: Jason C. Stearns, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: 345

Web Seminar: Accountability and Transparency: What They Mean to You and the Courts - GARP®: On the Front Page Series

Facilitator: John C Montana
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: An Exclusive Account of GARP® Application in a Law Firm - GARP®: On the Front Page Series Facilitator: Brianne E.Aul
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP®: Avoiding the Headlines by Applying the Principles of Availability and Compliance --- GARP®: On the Front Page Series

Facilitator: Martin D. Susec
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: How to Champion GARP® - and Win! -- GARP®: On the Front Page Series

Facilitator: Mr. Rick A Stirling
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar:Organizational Compliance Failures, Where GARP® Could Have Helped - GARP® On the Front Page Series

Facilitator: Gordon E.J. Hoke, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 1.0
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP® Maturity Model: From Theory to Practice --- GARP®: On the Front Page Series Facilitator: Mr. Gary G MacFadden
Price: Member: $20, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Disposition Web Seminar
Facilitator: Julie Colgan, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Retention Web Seminar
Facilitator: Dave McDermott, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Availability Web Seminar
Facilitator: Jim Coulson, CRM, FAI
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Compliance Web Seminar
Facilitator: Martin Susec, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Protection Web Seminar
Facilitator: Rick Stirling
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Accountability Web Seminar
Facilitator: Lenore Greenberg, CRM
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Web Seminar: GARP ® Transparency Web Seminar
Facilitator: John Montaña, J.D.
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $35

Publication: Hot Topic: The Imperative for Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles ®;
Principles for Gaining Control of Electronic Information; GARP ® Mapping a Route for Compliance
Authors: Fred A. Pulzello, CRM; Debra Logan; John Montaña, JD
ICRM Maintenance Credits: 0
Price: Member: $0, Non-member: $0

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