Why Compliant Bosses Need Info Pros - Some Cautionary Compliance Tales
26th August 2014

As the FreePint Topic Series: What You Need to Know Your Customer (KYC) continues, Tim Buckley Owen notes that there are special insights that information professionals can bring to this and other regulatory compliance challenges. Whether it's the Safe Harbor agreement, adverts for financial services generated automatically by search engine results, financial promotions in social media or regulatory authorities' encouragement of financial technology developments like Bitcoins, info pros should be able to offer a uniquely well informed perspective. And that's before you even consider ways of keeping the boss out of jail for not doing their due diligence properly...

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LinkedIn... Making it Even Easier to "Follow" People
25th August 2014

It has been a busy year for LinkedIn, as reported recently, LinkedIn acquired Newsle to bolster its news and subscription services and LinkedIn has rolled out a number of significant changes to the site. These include, but aren't limited to: status updates being relocated to the LinkedIn homepage, a new way to manage contacts, showcase pages for companies, LinkedIn Pulse news and mobile and - perhaps most significantly - a new publishing platform which allows LinkedIn members to publish blog posts to their profile. Now LinkedIn has quietly rolled out a new "follow" feature, which is likely to have a significant impact on the way we all use LinkedIn.

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A User-Centred Approach to Privacy
20th August 2014

There's been a lot of focus on data privacy recently and news stories often show how organisations are failing to protect their customers' data but are users doing enough to protect themselves? This article looks at how users and organisations can better protect personal data.

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Due Diligence - from Business Burden to Business Benefit
19th August 2014

Organisations face growing legal and reputational risks associated with doing business. These risks have become even more significant because of mounting pressure from regulators and an increase in business carried out in higher risk jurisdictions. Increasingly complex business regulations such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act ensure that companies thoroughly examine third-party relationships to tackle the risk of money laundering, bribery and corruption and sanctions regimes. Mark Dunn looks at what the law says regarding Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Bribery & Corruption, and how organisations can mitigate the risk of becoming involved in corruption through third parties (e.g. agents, suppliers) by implementing a simplified or Enhanced Due Diligence process.

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Product Review of Innography (Value - Development & Pricing)
18th August 2014

In the final part of her review of Innography's intellectual property research products, Cathy Chiba covers the platform's maturity and development programme. She outlines the pricing options for Advanced Analysis, Innography Explorer and PatentScout and details the value each of the three solutions offers decision-makers in the IP and technology development field.

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Why Social Implementations Can Fail
18th August 2014

Failure, we all try to avoid it, but sometimes through no fault of our own, it can rear its very ugly head. When it comes to social media projects in particular, defeat can be something that is encountered all too regularly. But with many companies having seen the benefits that using social tools have brought their competitors and peers, the pressure on information and knowledge managers to implement these tools can be extreme. Implementing a social tool is a difficult process and there are many different issues to consider to ensure success - James Mullan identifies some of the most significant challenges.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Innography
17th August 2014

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Product Review of Innography (Value - Overview and Competitors)
15th August 2014

The value offered by Innography's intellectual property business intelligence tools are covered in the ninth part of Cathy Chiba's review. She also investigates the competitor landscape, from patent information providers to those in the legal information and competitive intelligence space.

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Product Review of Innography (Technology - PatentScout; FreePint's View)
14th August 2014

In the eighth part of her review of Innography, Cathy Chiba introduces PatentScout, a secure, private alternative to free online patent databases. She looks into the features designed to encourage user adoption and reduce the administrative load of policing corporate usage of free online tools - and explains why IP-savvy organisations will find this tool of interest.

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How to Avoid Collaboration Fatigue
14th August 2014

We all understand - or at least think we understand - the benefits of collaboration, and in the last 10 years the collaboration industry has done a fantastic job of delivering a range of tools that have made it easier and easier for team members to collaborate with fewer and fewer barriers. Today the unified communications tools and systems we have available in our organisations have virtually eliminated the barriers to both collaborating with colleagues and sharing knowledge. However is there a dark side to collaboration that we dare not write about until now, the idea of collaboration fatigue.

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