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How BASF puts knowledge at the centre of innovation
28th January 2026
A recent Jinfo Community session, with Dr Stephan Ballenweg of BASF, explored the development of “QKnows”, a global knowledge and information platform for 10,000 R&D researchers.
As a result of the session, Jinfo has produced a detailed report that gives an overview of the development of the QKnows platform, and eight actions for information leaders.
This blog gives some highlights from the report, including two actions, plus details of a forthcoming demo.
All recent Subscription content
22nd January 2026
Here is a list of all the topics covered by Jinfo in the last 12 months.
Should you sign up for a product in beta?
13th January 2026
Products in beta offer early access, influence, and learning advantages but come with risks like instability, data exposure, and shifting priorities.
To benefit safely, approach them strategically: test in controlled environments, protect your data, and treat participation as an experiment, not a long-term commitment.
To benefit safely, approach them strategically: test in controlled environments, protect your data, and treat participation as an experiment, not a long-term commitment.
January 2026 update
7th January 2026
- GenAI strengths, weaknesses and limitations for adverse-media monitoring
- Honing your information leadership skills
- How GenAI is affecting your team, and what this means for your strategy.
Actions to balance the risks of adverse-media monitoring and web scraping for news content
18th December 2025
Jinfo has recently been focussing on new content monitoring, and the complex trade-off between comprehensive coverage, data integrity, and copyright risk.
In-depth results from our survey and Community session have generated a number of strategies and actions for information managers.
Opportunities for information managers in due diligence and third-party risk
11th December 2025
There are multiple opportunities for information managers to support their organisation’s due diligence and integrity research.
Here we capture some of the opportunities and recommendations from our new report.
News integrity and GenAI – the opportunity for information managers
9th December 2025
A recent study* from the BBC and European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reveals the serious risks associated with using GenAI tools for news search.
Jinfo has extracted the main insights, and produced a new report containing ten tactical and strategic actions for information managers.
Here is an overview of the issues, and two of the ten actions.
Jinfo wins CILIP’s inaugural “McFarlane & Ward Information Management” award
4th December 2025
The award recognises Jinfo’s work in supporting information professionals with independent research, product reviews, practical strategies and networking.
December 2025 update
3rd December 2025
Contents:
- Mitigating third-party risk
- Review of Matchplat
- Why you shouldn’t rely on GenAI for news.
Review of Matchplat – combining AI with traditional industry code searching
27th November 2025
Matchplat is a new player with an interesting approach to building company lists, which combine AI with traditional code-based searching.
Jinfo has had access to their beta product, due to launch in early 2026, and here are some of our findings.
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January 2026 update
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