Balancing "Generalist" and "Specialist" Expertise
22nd March 2016

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Mini Review of CB Insights for Sales
23rd May 2016

CB Insights for Sales is designed for strategic sales teams that target fast growth companies. The firm collects company profiles, M&A activity, and funding intelligence. They also maintain profiles of investors in high-growth companies. Michael Levy explores why this could make good complement to traditional sales intelligence solutions.

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Supporting Enterprise Collaboration in a World Obsessed With Slack
20th May 2016

Slack is a collaboration tool which has achieved extraordinary growth, largely bypassing central enterprise collaboration teams. What does this mean for the ways we should support users from the centre? Steve Bynghall argues that Slack has strengths and weaknesses and central support is needed to help employees explore different collaboration options. A number of support tactics are outlined.

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Being an Industry Specialist in a Global Management Consultancy
17th May 2016

Leading global management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney, has offices in more than 40 countries and deals with clients in areas from beauty products to wind turbines. Carole Schwalbaum, manager of the Americas Information and Research Centre, explains what both generalist and specialist information researchers bring to the company. 

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Product Review of Northern Light SinglePoint
16th May 2016

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Product Review of Northern Light SinglePoint (Value - Help & Training; Competitors; Development; Pricing)
13th May 2016

Northern Light's SinglePoint provides a single point of access to all of a client's research information, both internal and from leading technology and industry research analysts. In the final part of her product review, Sophie Alexander looks at help available for both users and administrators, new developments in the pipeline and competitors including Factiva and MuseGlobal. She summarises the product's value and how the company's maturity has led to an increasingly sophisticated product.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2670

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Product Review of Northern Light SinglePoint (Technology - Search & User Interface; Outputs & Alerts; Administration)
12th May 2016

Northern Light's SinglePoint provides a single point of access for all of a client's research information, both internal and from leading technology and industry research analysts. In the third part of her product review, Sophie Alexander looks at the technology and tests the product's focused delivery of pertinent content. She looks at dashboard functionality, Northern Light's MI Analyst technology, and how collaboration and sharing of research content is encouraged.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2670

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Market landscape - patent products
12th May 2016

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Mini Review of Figshare
11th May 2016

Online digital repository Figshare allows users to upload and share, for free, their research outputs, in any file format. In light of a future where researchers will increasingly have to make all of their data publicly available, reviewer Sophie Alexander outlines key advantages of using Figshare for the three user groups of researchers, publishers and institutions. She also looks at the technology and how it performs in the day-to-day management of research data.

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Subscription Update for Information Services Management
11th May 2016

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