DIRKS Goals

Understand the business, regulatory and social context in which organizations operate (step A);

Identify their need to create, control, retrieve and dispose of records (that is, their record-keeping requirements) through an analysis of their business activities and environmental factors (steps B and C);

Assess the extent to which existing organizational strategies (such as policies, procedures and practices) satisfy their record-keeping requirements (step D);

Redesign existing strategies or design new strategies to address unmet or poorly satisfied requirements (steps E and F); and

Understand the business, regulatory and social context in which organizations operate (step A);