Turn Your Insights into Action with the Latest Tools for CI Communication
29th May 2014

Competitive intelligence professionals face an uphill battle communicating their insights to internal stakeholders and inspiring action. New tools and techniques for effective communication can help ensure that your message is heard and acted upon. Wayne Jones highlights some of the best new tools, including Perspective, Prezi and Tableau as well as highlighting new visualisation features in well-known tools such as Excel.

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Forget BYOD and COPE, It's Time for BYOID
29th May 2014

First we had Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Corporate Owned Personally Enabled (COPE), now organisations are looking at the idea of users bringing their own identity (BYOID). BYOID is a relatively new concept which is being used to describe how consumers are increasingly using social media credentials to log into other sites. But what, if anything, is the impact of BYOID going to be for organisations?

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Product Review of ScienceDirect Reference Modules: Introduction and Contact Details
29th May 2014

Yulia Aspinall introduces Reference Modules, a reference solution integrated into Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform. Two modules are already available to researchers (Chemistry, Molecular Sciences & Chemical Engineering; and Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences) with more planned.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Cipher Systems' Knowledge.Works
27th May 2014

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The Right to be Forgotten - Implications for Businesses
27th May 2014

This article discusses the recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to Google and the right to be forgotten and looks at some of the possible privacy and compliance implications for individuals and businesses.

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Are Conversations at the Heart of Knowledge Sharing?
27th May 2014

The social tools available to organisations have changed the way we create and share knowledge. James Mullan finds that whilst these tools do a great job, recent reading makes him think that another tool is at the heart of knowledge sharing. That tool is a good old conversation. So are conversations at the heart of knowledge sharing, or do they have very little value in sharing knowledge?

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Product Review of Cipher Systems' Knowledge.Works: Value, Development & Pricing
27th May 2014

In the final section of this review, Sophie Alexander looks at some of the reasons why a company might benefit from having Knowledge.Works for competitive intelligence,  the costs involved as well as some of the alternatives on the market.

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Right To Be Forgotten - Good News for Info Pros?
23rd May 2014

In a ruling that has provoked widespread astonishment, the European Court of Justice has held that individuals can require Google and other search engines to remove links to information about them that they regard as inadequate or no longer relevant. In the debate between free speech and absence of censorship on the one hand, and personal privacy and data protection on the other, Tim Buckley Owen argues that the ruling could represent an opportunity for information professionals. It could demonstrate their value as the experts on specialist research sources and techniques that don't rely on generic search engines, as well as enhancing their regulatory compliance role.

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Product Review of Cipher Systems' Knowledge.Works: Technology: Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help
22nd May 2014

The third section of this review highlights the search functionality available on the Knowledge.Works system along with some of its most useful collaborative tools, including Key Intelligence Topics (KITs) and the newly-designed report wizard. Sophie Alexander also scrutinises the competitive intelligence tool's strengths in information gathering, organisation and dissemination.

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We're All Hackers Now
22nd May 2014

Reviewing another crop of scary reports on the risks of cyber attack, Tim Buckley Owen finds once again that not all the solutions are technological ones. There does seem to be a severe shortage of people with data science skills, but the range of possible attacks with which they might have to deal can be described in just nine patterns - and in any case human error remains the biggest single cause of IT disruption to business. With issues such as reputation management to consider, and the arrival of a new tool to help enterprises calculate the cost of cyber attacks, there are plenty of opportunities for info pros to establish their niche in this rapidly growing field.

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