Supercharge your strategy; focus on value
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By Claire Laybats

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Find out how Jinfo workshops can help you find the time to invest in strategy and service development.

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"I wish I had time to invest in strategy and high-value work. But I can't even make the time to figure out how to make the time."

If any part of this sounds familiar to you, you are not alone. Creating the balance between strategy and operations is an ongoing challenge, and most of us feel like we're facing it blindfolded with one hand tied behind our backs.

Three of the most important things Jinfo has learnt from the teams that successfully focus on information strategy and make a practice of optimising team operations are these:

1. The work is hard, but even harder is establishing the framework for it and creating accountability for doing it. (Check out this blog item for tips on framework and accountability.)
   
   
2. Don't jump to "what can we cut?" Try SOAPS: Streamline, Outsource, Automate, Push back, Stop doing. (Further explanation here.)
   
   
3. You make time for high-value work through optimising all transactional work. Tricky, challenging, ongoing... but do-able. (This blog item explains further.)

You don't have time... so do it now.

If you wait for the perfect time to make time... well, you know what's likely to happen. Start with strategy, start with optimisation, but START.

Jinfo can help:

• Our Consulting Workshop, "Future-proof your information service", condenses the work of strategic planning and enables you to create a practical workplan in as little as six weeks.
  
  
• Our Consulting Workshop, "Do better with less: workflow optimisation," teaches your team the basics of workflow optimisation including the application of SOAPS, to reduce the burden of transactional tasks on your team's capacity, whilst maintaining or even improving outcomes.
  
  
• Create even more accountability by purchasing both workshops for a package deal. We promise you'll be in a very different place within 6 months if you do.
  
  
• Join other professionals working on the same issues in our unique Community sessions - Jinfo for information strategy and Jinfo for optimising your information service - click those links for information about the next of these quarterly offerings, open to customers with a Jinfo Subscription.

But the fastest way to determine how to give you the most value for money in articulating or sharpening your strategy and/or implementing optimisation processes is to talk with me. Tell me what's most important to you, and together we can design the package to help you leap the everyday hurdles that make strategy and optimisation so challenging.

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