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By Norma Beavers

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Information managers will be challenged in 2017 on several fronts. Whatever your role - be it information strategy, managing a research team, content purchasing or knowledge management - you'll need to stay ahead on all fronts to move information forwards and build value within your business. Jinfo can help to support the decisions you make, so be sure you check out our summaries, written by director of research, Robin Neidorf, to get the latest views on all the areas that are most relevant to you and your business.

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Every quarter Jinfo brings together the most pertinent articles, product reviews, webinars and Community sessions into a summary blog to give our Subscribers in four key information areas a snapshot of what they may have missed or what's upcoming that's pertinent to them. 

If you've missed any of these or want to revisit them, here's an introduction to the summaries from the last quarter, plus the links to read the full items. 

Information strategy

To succeed in 2017, information managers must quickly get to grips with working in a "data-first" world.

Data analytics will have an impact on your information service and there's no time like the present to decide what that will mean for you.

Consider also whether and how your services meet the needs of today's users. Your information strategy needs to be tailored to enabling self-service, improving automation, enhancing mobile access and measuring value by something other than database usage.

Information professionals will need to update their skills to contribute to a world that is leaning heavily towards data analytics. To prepare yourself for 2017 see: Jinfo for information strategy.

Managing a research team

What are the big areas that your research team should be focusing on as 2017 dawns and we head from winter to spring?

Data analytics is already influencing your service but what do you need to do to stay ahead of this trend?

Self-service is increasingly important to end-users but what do you need to do to train them on how to serve themselves while remaining mindful about when they should actually ask you for help? For the latest thinking see: Jinfo for managing a research team.

Content purchasing

Across our customer base, Jinfo has been tracking a trend towards declining usage of premium databases and content sets. If your role involves content purchasing you'll know that declining usage isn't the result of a single issue because lots of different things can contribute to it.

Keep sight of how you can get the best value from existing investments in content while working with stakeholders to better define and measure the value the content brings to your business regardless of the level of usage. And remember that most content purchasing departments will at some time or other have to face challenges to manage soaring price increases with budgets that are flat.

To prepare for the twists and turns that 2017 will undoubtedly bring, you'll find a full crop of articles about content purchasing here: Jinfo for content purchasing.

Knowledge management

Artificial intelligence is fast becoming the next area in which information professionals need to build a working knowledge and perspective on the role it can or can't play in their knowledge management strategy.

If you're a knowledge manager who has been tracking recent trends you'll already be thinking about artificial intelligence and whether it has a role to play in your business strategy. Artificial intelligence is an area that comes up in knowledge management discussions as well as in current awareness discussions. Find out more at: Jinfo for knowledge management.

For easy access to future "Jinfo for role" summaries, bookmark our "What's New?" page and you'll find them listed under Blog items.

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