December 2025 update
Jinfo Blog

3rd December 2025

By Stephen Phillips

Abstract

• Mitigating third-party risk
• Review of Matchplat
• Why you shouldn’t rely on GenAI for news.

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Here at Jinfo, we believe there are three "whys" that underpin the value that information teams provide to their organisations:

• make money
• save money
• mitigate risk.

We're currently focussing on mitigating risk, and know of one organisation that has over 250,000 third-parties. Another has over 1,000 staff working on due diligence and integrity research.

So with all that potential financial, commercial and reputational damage, why are information teams rarely involved in the work?

Read our new report, which contains practical advice on how information teams can step up:

• "Opportunities for information managers in due diligence and third-party risk" (Report)
  
  

Another risk is inaccuracy of GenAI news search results.

This has been explored in a recent 100-page BBC and European Broadcast Union (EBU) report, which found that 45% of news searches done using GenAI platforms contained at least one significant issue.

We've summarised the BBC/EBU report, and added practical actions for information managers:

• "News integrity and AI – building the case for premium news products" (Report)
  
  

Whilst many organisations are still experimenting with GenAI, we recently came across a well developed use case for the technology - BASF QKnows.

In this month's Community session, Stephan Ballenweg, BASF Head of Knowledge Systems, will walk through key milestones in the development of QKnows.

He'll share strategies for stakeholder buy-in, cooperation, use-cases, justification and GenAI adoption:

• "Transforming knowledge management at BASF – GenAI and the evolution of QKnows" 10th December 2025 (Community)
  
  

Our forthcoming sessions look at "Team demand and AI" (22nd January 2026) and "Team roles and AI" (26th February 2026).

Register for Community sessions.

Matchplat is a new player that builds company lists combining AI with code-based searching. We've enjoyed accessing the beta product, and have produced a detailed report and product demo:

• Overview (Blog), product review (Report), full demo (Webinar) and quick demo (YouTube).
  
  

We're delighted to announce that Jinfo has won the inaugural "McFarlane and Ward Information Management Award" from CILIP.

We are very grateful to Karen McFarlane and Sandra Ward for setting up this award, and our colleagues in the Knowledge and Information Management group for naming Jinfo as its first winner.

We have an exciting year lined up for 2026, so if you have budget left over, and aren't yet a Jinfo subscriber, then explore the value of a Jinfo Subscription.

Have a relaxing and enjoyable seasonal break.

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