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Jinfo's practical and targeted webinars bring quality professional development to your desktop. Recordings are available through a Jinfo Subscription.
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Mapping the full use-case to create success with analytics
14th March 2018
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[Research Focus: Stake your claim in the success of data analytics]
Featuring Marc Vollenweider: Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Evalueserve and author of mind+machine. Most analytics projects fail to realise their potential because their owners fail to consider the entire use-case. Applying smart technology to the right datasets is actually only one...
The trouble with datasets - industry trends on licensing data for analytics projects
6th February 2018
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[Research Focus: Stake your claim in the success of data analytics]
Keen to strengthen your portfolio management and negotiations around third-party data? As more organisations explore and implement data analytics projects, we continue to face the challenges of appropriate licensing: Data suppliers have a range of approaches to licensing... and some still...
Real-world analytics and you
18th January 2018
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[Research Focus: Stake your claim in the success of data analytics]
Featuring analyst Amy Affelt. "Yes, but what will we do with it?" A consistent challenge in addressing the emerging world of data analytics is how best to nail down practicalities. Are you confronting these questions? What are the B2B applications of analytics and which will be most...
Current awareness in 2020
5th December 2017
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[Research Focus: Define and manage value for current awareness]
In our Research Focus, "Define and manage value for current awareness", we're addressing strategic questions such as what user demands will look like in three years time and how to design for self-serve. This session will give you insights into our analysis of current awareness provision and...
The impact of shrinking spend on premium databases
7th November 2017
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[Research Focus: Define and manage value for current awareness]
Our research tells us that premium news databases are a shrinking proportion of overall spending to support current awareness industry-wide. This decline and the rise of alternative services and approaches is a theme we're exploring in our Research Focus, "Define and manage value for current...
The increasing role of technology in current awareness
10th October 2017
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[Research Focus: Define and manage value for current awareness]
The value of current awareness services increasingly comes from technology, including management platforms, analytics and self-service, a theme we're exploring in our Research Focus, "Define and manage value for current awareness". This session makes sense of the confusing vendor landscape...
Future-proof your service by refocusing on higher-value work
12th September 2017
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[Research Focus: Benchmark information roles - optimise your structure]
A "future-proofed" information service is one that reinvents itself regularly. You can't succeed tomorrow based on the service promises of yesterday. A common theme explored in Jinfo's current benchmarking research is the desire - and need - to focus information services as a strategic...
A look at the data for benchmarking your information service
8th August 2017
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[Research Focus: Benchmark information roles - optimise your structure]
A challenging question in Jinfo's benchmarking work focused on, "What metrics do you review to determine the success of your service?" Data is a key input for enabling decision-making, but it's notoriously difficult to develop and track meaningful measures in our field of practice. In this...
Maximising the strengths and minimising the weaknesses of organisational structure
11th July 2017
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[Research Focus: Benchmark information roles - optimise your structure]
The information services function has traditionally comprised of a centralised function, which ticked all the boxes of our three-legged stool: sources, technology and value. However, our benchmarking research has highlighted a trend towards a more decentralised approach. The core functions of...
Best practices in effective, activity-based learning for information literacy
13th June 2017
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[Research Focus: Developing an information-savvy workforce through strategic alignments]
If you cultivate your skill in creating activity-based learning, you will improve the way workers interact with information. But first, you need to learn to account for learning preferences amongst your target audience. Far from a "one-size-fits-all" strategy, information experts need to...Register for our next Community session:
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10th December 2025
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