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Jinfo Community provides a confidential, research-based, facilitated forum for discussion with your peers on critical issues in information management and strategy.
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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...
Sources, Technology, Value - What You Can "Own" and What You Can Influence
16th March 2016
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Information professionals bring to their work environments unique expertise in three interrelated areas: sources, technology and value. Maximise Your Success in the Organisation For maximum success you need to: Own strategy and decision-making in some areas Influence it in others,...
Make the Most of Your Organisation's Reporting Structure
17th February 2016
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No matter where in your organisation you sit, you can maximise the advantages of your position and minimise its weaknesses. Over the years of working with dozens of organisations, we at FreePint have documented many configurations, along with the pros and cons of each. Identify Characteristics...
Step One to Alignment Between IS and IT
2nd or 4th February 2016
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To create alignment between information services (IS) and information technology, it's essential for IS professionals to get into the mindset of IT professionals. How does IT work? What are its concerns and drivers? What are its measures of success? Answering these questions is particularly...
Step One to Alignment Between IS and IT (In-Person)
28th January 2016
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To create alignment between information services (IS) and information technology, it's essential for IS professionals to get into the mindset of IT professionals. How does IT work? What are its concerns and drivers? What are its measures of success? Answering these questions is particularly...
The End of an Era for News Databases?
7th January 2016
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This session is open to content buyers only. If you've been wondering about the viability of news databases and what continuing change in the sector might mean for your organisation, join this teleconference Communities of Practice session. Over the eight years since FreePint began our...
The End of an Era for News Databases?
1st or 3rd December 2015
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This session is open to content buyers only. If you've been wondering about the viability of news databases and what continuing change in the sector might mean for your organisation, join this teleconference Communities of Practice session. Over the eight years since FreePint began our...
Understanding Usage - Teleconference for Buyers and Sellers Seeking Alignment
19th November 2015
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This is a teleconference session open to both buyers and sellers of information. If you missed our in-person sessions (New York and London) bringing together buyers and sellers to discuss the myriad challenges around understanding usage, reporting and value, here is your chance to get the...
Understanding Usage - Buyers and Sellers Seeking Alignment
20th October 2015 (New York) or 4th November 2015 (London)
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This is an in-person event open to both buyers and sellers of information. Buyers of information resources and sellers of information products and services have a shared need to understand when, how and why content is used. Yet it's rare to find buyers and sellers in alignment about how to...
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