Create your Information Centre of Excellence with these three ingredients
Jinfo Blog
Monday, 10th June 2019
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What are the ingredients you need to ensure your information centre performs at its best?
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Creating an Information Centre of Excellence requires creativity, deep expertise, and practical knowledge about the needs of your organisation - every instance will look different.
Three ingredients are essential to creating your unique version of the Information Centre of Excellence:
- Knowing what questions to ask
- Having a framework in which to ask them
- Diligence about getting it done... despite the ever-increasing requests coming at you from all directions.
With Jinfo's research, you can envision and then create the right department, services and culture to succeed, through work on these questions:
- What's the right balance of enabling end users and delivering expert information services, based on a core information strategy (see Insight 1 here)
- Does your team have the right characteristics, such as consulting skills, commercial awareness, and tech-savvy? And if not, how can you cultivate them? (see Insight 2 here)
- Are you working ON the business of your department and not IN the business? If not, you'll always be planning for the past (see Insight 3 here).
The vital third ingredient in progress - diligence
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