The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) (www.edrm.net) is the de facto industry standard methodology for guiding enterprise legal and IT organizations required to support managing, collecting, reviewing, and producing evidence from electronically stored information (ESI).  However, for EDRM Information Management (www.edrm.net/projects/imrm) , a cornerstone best practice and critical step in becoming more proactive in eDiscovery, is often missing and not well connected across legal and IT organizations to drive support for eDiscovery and Litigation readiness, especially, when compared to preservation, processing, reviewing, analysis, and production. 

Thinking Next Generation eDiscovery