Product Review of Leadership Companies Premium: Interface and Search
16th August 2013

Aileen Marshall finds the search and interface options in Leadership Companies Premium to be simple yet comprehensive through successive filtering options or straightforward simple search or advanced search options. Board directors and executives can be searched by job function, industry, subject or organisation while the large national US and international companies can be filtered by a variety of financial data options, increasingly-specific industry categories and specialisations, or number of employees.

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Pearson Sacrifices Mergermarket for Future in Education
15th August 2013

Even after repeated denials, rumours still persisted that Pearson would sell the Financial Times. Although in many cases vociferous denials often mean the opposite, it appears that for now at least the FT will not be leaving the Pearson stable. Instead, the group announced at the end of last month that it is putting Mergermarket up for sale, the go-to service for all news and information relating to mergers and acquisitions.

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Product Review of Leadership Companies Premium: Sources, Content & Coverage
15th August 2013

Continuing her review of Leadership Companies Premium, Aileen Marshall looks at the criteria for inclusion in this database of large national US and international companies. She also explores how the information on each of the 100,000+ board directors and executives listed is checked and verified before inclusion in the database.

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Product Review of Leadership Companies Premium: Introduction and FreePint's View
14th August 2013

Introducing Leadership Companies Premium, Aileen Marshall gives her first impressions of this extensive database of 100,000 board members and executives in the US, including in-depth information such as titles, direct dial phone numbers, email addresses and other details. She considers how it will be used by leaders within the government, business arena and non-profit organisations.

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Return on Information Investment - Breakthrough At Last?
12th August 2013

Comment by Gartner that information should be treated as an asset may hearten information managers who have been striving to demonstrate return on investment for years. Developments such as big data and analytics are susceptible to ROI valuation, but increasing privacy concerns may compromise their further growth. Even China is developing a credible data protection regime, the European Union has concerns about the Safe Harbour agreement in the wake of the United States PRISM scandal, and the Economist Intelligence Unit reports that marketers are underestimating customers' privacy concerns. So could Gartner's suggested Bank Of Information finally unlock the discipline of infonomics and put a measurable value on information management of all kinds?

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Source Update August 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
8th August 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Nurturing Knowledge Sharing in Law Firms
7th August 2013

The legal sector and law firms can be an interesting environment to work in. One of the benefits is that law firms are usually full of very intelligent individuals who are committed to advancing their understanding of law and how it affects their clients. There are also large numbers of support staff who provide invaluable support to these lawyers. Together these individuals have a wealth of knowledge and experience that they're just waiting to share with their colleagues. Or they would be if it wasn't for the numerous barriers that exist within law firms that disrupt knowledge sharing.

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Source Update August 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
6th August 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Global Financial Data
5th August 2013

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Five Themes in Understanding Value
5th August 2013

Bill Noorlander explains why isolating "value" when purchasing information is so very complex and reports on a recent FreePint Webinar: What Do You Already Know About Value?, where he outlined how setting a "value" on information purchases is influenced by areas such as mathematics, measurement, accounting, culture and management. Developing guidelines in each of these areas can help to move towards shared understanding of value within your own organisation.

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