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Staking your claim - the role of information services within data analytics
16th or 17th November 2016
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Jinfo's research and work with customers has found that information services have an opportunity to play a uniquely strategic role within data analytics, based on their wealth of experience and expertise. But just what are your team's particular strengths that will prepare them for this new world?...
Together buyers and sellers face up to data analytics
25th October 2016
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The emergent world of data analytics is fraught with complexity, and the various players are starting to work out the rules of the game. Organisations are seeking to treat data and datasets as technology-neutral, wanting to reuse data in different ways and on different platforms. Users are...
Together buyers and sellers face up to data analytics (In-Person)
26th September (New York) or 17th October 2016 (London)
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The emergent world of data analytics is fraught with complexity, and the various players are starting to work out the rules of the game. Organisations are seeking to treat data and datasets as technology-neutral, wanting to reuse data in different ways and on different platforms. Users are...
Skills Crossover for Current Awareness and Data Analytics
21st September 2016
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One of the key findings from a previous Community session,"The Information Team with the 'Right Stuff'", was the need for information professionals to transpose their current skills to new contexts. Not only will this help them remain employable over time, it will also ensure their value and...
Elements of a Current Awareness Needs Assessment
12th or 14th July 2016
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Just where do you begin when looking at the current awareness needs of your organisation? Do you start with your budget? Your users? Your own needs? Is it all a shot in the dark? These questions are central to our Research Focus, "Content and Technology for Current Awareness", running from July...
Generalists or Specialists?
15th June 2016
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Do you feel pulled between the need to cultivate generalist skills in all your researchers and the need to develop specialist staff to better support higher-value services? If so, you're not alone. Many information services struggle with this tension. With limited headcount and ever-increasing...
Key Relationships: IT, Procurement, Legal, HR
18th May 2016
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Twenty years ago, an information centre was likely to manage its own negotiations and contracts, project-manage implementations and handle user training. Today, if that centre still exists, its staff are regularly working with (or trying to avoid) colleagues in specialist departments like IT,...
More Value for Source Experts Through Mature Query Handling
10th or 12th May 2016
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Because information services are positioned as the "source experts", they need to be able to handle inbound queries for the kinds of research that end-users cannot do on their own. Jinfo has researched the range of approaches for inbound query management - from very basic email submissions to...
The Information Team with "The Right Stuff"
20th April 2016
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Can you describe the information team that has "the right stuff"? Can you build it, train it and nurture it into an uncertain future? In 2015, Jinfo conducted research on "Best Practices in Information Skills Development". During and after that project, we worked with many organisations that...
Separating Evaluation of Technology from Evaluation of Content
30th March 2016
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Our research and work with customers increasingly highlights how important it is to think about the technology of content delivery separately from the content required for research and strategy within the business. This observation runs counter to much of the history of our industry to date, in...
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