July 2025 update
Jinfo Blog

By Stephen Phillips

Abstract

• Improve outcomes from your vendor negotiations
• KiMRA conference highlights
• Future-proofing your team for GenAI
• Critical-thinking skills for GenAI research
• Introduction to Factiva Smart Summary
• The convergence of news and GenAI.

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Following an incredible Jinfo Community session in May, we have compiled the report "Improve outcomes from your vendor negotiations".

The report is nothing short of an exposé into how vendors manage client relationships and contract negotiations.

If you only read one Jinfo resource this month, read the report. To get a taste, see this Blog item.

Last month, we were delighted to join over 100 colleagues for the Knowledge Information Management Research and Analytics (KiMRA) conference in London, UK.

Our new report "Five takeaways from the KiMRA conference" captures all the key talking points, which were focused on the impact of Generative AI. There's a taster on the Blog.

One KiMRA session we found especially interesting was "Knowledge and Research Reimagined".  There was lots to unpick from this conversation, so we've written the extensive blog item "Future proofing your team for GenAI" on how you can "opportunity spot" and build your strategy to work with GenAI.

"Critical thinking" was a core competency identified during the conference.

Our July Community session "Critical thinking skills for GenAI" will offer practical insights into the critical skills needed to use GenAI for research, including prompting, domain expertise, and source knowledge. Register now.

Following our recent report on Factiva Smart Summary, we've recorded a Webinar which gives our first-hand impressions and a demo of this new interface and the GenAI enhanced functionality.

You can watch the Webinar here, and read highlights from the report on the Blog.

For a reflection on our research into news and GenAI, see our YouTube video "The convergence of news and AI".

As always, your feedback guides our journey. So, please keep telling us how we are doing, and what we should be looking at next. The easiest way is through our contact form.

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