Community
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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Value Chain foundation – mastering the mindset
5th May 2022
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The foundation of Value Chain Analysis requires you to shift your mindset to focus on a question that information teams are not accustomed to answering in detail: “What is the business trying to accomplish?”Mastering this shift takes practice, feedback and – often –...
Advance as an information leader, activate your expertise
29th March 2022
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You are more than an information expert: you are an information leader, working as an advisor and connector between information and your organisation’s goals. In this session we shared experiences and tips in making this shift from "information manager" to "information...
Stakeholder engagement strategy – tips and tools
22nd February 2022
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The most effective and strategic information teams are the ones that evolve into internal information consultancies. To succeed in this transformation, you need to manage and maintain meaningful relationships with senior stakeholders – your most important internal clients.In this session we...
Build your information strategy – get started, keep going
20th January 2022
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Your strategy is your vision of what’s possible. It’s important and rewarding, but often challenging to get started and maintain momentum.In this session we heard from information managers who have made progress on specific strategic initiatives. They shared how small adjustments in...
Investment philosophies for strategic portfolio management
2nd December 2021
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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 reviewed and analysed...
Negotiation role-play for content licensing professionals
7th October 2021
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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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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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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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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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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...
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