The educational archive and management obligations.

The archive can provide evidence of continuing management obligations and rights as well as instruments of power, legitimacy and accountability which facilitate corporate and interpersonal connections. Information from an in-house educational archive, such as financial and inventory documents, and statements of responsibility, as well as staff and student records, can be used when the management wishes to evaluate long-standing control systems within the organisation or department. This would help administrators to implement corrective action where necessary, or revise methods of strategic or operational control.

Management planning and data from the archives.

An efficient management uses the planning process to give an organisation or department a purpose and direction, and develop the potential for effective growth within the organization or department. The availability of information and the quality of information are vital factors in the thinking process for strategy formulation, and the development of a corporate strategy. Data from the in-house archive can be used by the management during the planning process, in order to help define situations and circumstances, determine aids and barriers to the planning process, recognise and understand past and present goals and objectives, develop new goals, objectives, programs, and sets of actions, and then identify communication flows and networks.