Community
Jinfo Community provides a confidential, research-based, facilitated forum for discussion with your peers on critical issues in information management and strategy.
Community is available to Jinfo clients.
Stakeholder engagement strategy – tips and tools
22nd February 2022
Stakeholder engagement strategy – tips and tools
The most effective and strategic information teams are the ones that evolve into internal information consultancies. To succeed, they need to manage and maintain meaningful relationships with senior stakeholders – their most important internal clients. But many teams struggle to build...
Overcoming the barriers to progress on information strategy
11th January 2022
Overcoming the barriers to progress on information strategy
Competing priorities, lack of stakeholder buy-in, inconsistent team engagement, too much day-to-day work... These are just some of the distractions our clients face when trying to make progress on information strategy. Although these hurdles can feel insurmountable, the truth is that with...
Investment philosophies for strategic portfolio management
2nd December 2021
Investment philosophies for strategic portfolio management
Financial managers build wealth portfolios based on investment philosophies. Your organisation's portfolio of third-party content should also be based on an investment philosophy, which clearly states objectives, strategies, and measures of success.In this session, we'll review and analyse...
Negotiation role-play for content licensing professionals
7th October 2021
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Negotiation role-play for content licensing professionals
Review the report from the latest of our popular negotiation role-play sessions...This session's scenario: managing difficult conversations with internal stakeholdersWhat happens when the primary barrier to a successful contract negotiation is with your internal stakeholders rather than your...
Teeing up value-based budget conversations for content licensing
21st September 2021
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Teeing up value-based budget conversations for content licensing
Value, costs, usage, preferences... all of these are part of most budget conversations, whether explicitly or implicitly.Many of our customers are seeing increased pressure on their buying budgets and demands. In this Community session, we examined ideas on building meaningful conversations based...
Centre of Excellence - make progress on your evolution, with your peers
13th July 2021
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Centre of Excellence - make progress on your evolution, with your peers
For nearly a decade, Jinfo has assisted information teams with designing their own versions of the Jinfo model for an Information Centre of Excellence. Now you have a chance to compare notes, objectives and results with your peers.If you have not yet explored the activities in the Focus on Centre...
Centre of Excellence - examples of Pillars of Service and Known Fors
15th June 2021
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Centre of Excellence - examples of Pillars of Service and Known Fors
The Jinfo model for an Information Centre of Excellence includes two activities that we have used with dozens of information teams to great positive effect. This Community session provided the opportunity for information managers to review and discuss their results with:Step two - create your...
Scorecards - how information teams are designing and using them
25th May 2021
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Scorecards - how information teams are designing and using them
The concept of using scorecards to support product evaluation, communications with stakeholders and licence negotiations is an exciting topic for many information professionals.In this Community session, we discussed how scorecards are developed and used in a variety of environments.Download this...
Negotiation clinic - role-play and Q&A
13th April 2021
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Negotiation clinic - role-play and Q&A
This session involved role-playing different negotiation scenarios, plus discussion and Q&A with participants to consider a variety of approaches to points of negotiation.If you missed the session, download the anonymised notes today. Be sure to register for future “negotiation...
Usage data in contract negotiations
23rd March 2021
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Usage data in contract negotiations
We know that usage is only one component of what constitutes “value” but it is a very important component. But many content portfolio managers have difficulty:Getting reliable usage dataUsing data in “apples to apples” comparisonsInterpreting data to clarify the value of a...
Jinfo December 2021 Update
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"My stakeholders finally understand what we do" – Senior Information Manager, manufacturing industry
Work on information strategy in 2022 with Jinfo if you want to:
- Measure, communicate and improve the ROI of information
- Consistently dedicate time to strategy, despite competing demands
- Build on methods tested and proven in other organisations.
For more on how your organisation benefits and how to get started, check out our "Spotlight on strategy".
- There's no information strategy without stakeholder engagement
Wednesday, 1st December 2021 - Measure the impact of information with Value Chain analysis
Monday, 22nd November 2021 - You know more than you think you do
Tuesday, 16th November 2021
Articles:
- Centre of Excellence (step five - your evolution work plan)
Wednesday, 11th August 2021 - Centre of Excellence (step four - assess your team’s characteristics)
Tuesday, 22nd June 2021 - Centre of Excellence (step three - envision your Known Fors)
Thursday, 10th June 2021
Reports:
- Community deck - negotiation role-play for content licensing professionals
Monday, 18th October 2021 - Community deck - teeing up value-based budget conversations for content licensing
Thursday, 30th September 2021 - Community deck - Centre of Excellence - make progress on your evolution, with your peers
Friday, 23rd July 2021
- Stakeholder engagement strategy – tips and tools (Community) Tuesday, 22nd February 2022
- Overcoming the barriers to progress on information strategy (Community) Tuesday, 11th January 2022
- Investment philosophies for strategic portfolio management (Community) Thursday, 2nd December 2021
- Value Chain (step five - putting the Value Chain together) (Webinar) Tuesday, 31st August 2021
- Value Chain (step four - measurement - selecting and collecting data) (Webinar) Monday, 30th August 2021
- Value Chain (step three - your contributions to the Value Chain) (Webinar) Friday, 27th August 2021