Jinfo for information strategy
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By Robin Neidorf

Abstract

What does it take to "own" information strategy for your business, and what skills and partnerships do you need to underpin that strategy?

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As you work on your 2017 strategy and plans, take a minute to ensure that you address the following questions:

• What skills does the information team need?

• What are the right partnerships required for successful projects?

• How do we focus the work of information professionals on the highest value for the business?

• What does it take to own information strategy for our organisation?

These are the primary themes of Jinfo's "state of the industry" insights, which we have been exploring with information managers through Community sessions via teleconference, in Chicago, Washington and London. Upcoming sessions are in the works for New York and Atlanta.

Over 100 information managers from all the industries Jinfo works with will have participated in these discussions by the time we finish the last session. They each prioritise the questions differently, depending on the particular projects and needs of their organisations. But all affirm the importance of asking these questions, even if the answers are a work-in-progress.

Today's "Jinfo for information strategy" includes a lot of articles and reports (see below) - it might even look like a daunting list. But what you'll find there are unique resources that help you ask and answer the right questions.

Consider, for example, "Jinfo model - researching and planning for data analytics risks": nearly every information manager we work with has concerns about the unknown challenges of developing successful analytics projects. This report offers an adaptable framework for identifying and addressing those risks. 

Our aim at Jinfo is to turn original research into practical tools to save you time; get you to the right answers for your organisation; and support your communication with senior leadership, partners and suppliers. Read our content, participate in our Community sessions, and ask about consulting for one-on-one assistance.

Recent Subscription Content of particular interest to our customers involved with information strategy: 

Articles:

• The hidden benefits of collaborating well with colleagues
• Getting clarity on data analytics projects
• Reflecting on the Jinfo Research Focus "Data analytics - ready your information service"

Data analytics

• Data analytics & licensing - the role of financial information providers
• Data analytics & licensing - the role of content aggregators
• Data analytics & licensing - the role of business information aggregators
• Data analytics & licensing - the role of company data providers
• An overview of the fast-developing data analytics landscape (part 2)
• What are information vendors doing to support data analytics?
• An overview of the fast-developing data analytics landscape (part 1)
• How you can identify and influence data analytics projects
• Generating textual narratives from structured data - key vendors
• What's at stake if information services are excluded from data analytics projects?
• Standards and ethics in the use of big data
• Revolutionising big pharma with big data, visualisation and analytics
• Overcoming common data analytics risks
• Buyers and sellers collaborate on the data analytics challenge
• Librarians and data scientists - rivals, replacements, or reciprocal relationship?
• Data analytics - challenges of combining internal data with open data
• How to get involved in data analytics

Reports:

• Market landscape - content platforms
• Jinfo model for developing an approach to understanding and measuring value

Risk & compliance

• Market landscape - LexisNexis Risk Solutions risk & compliance products
• Market landscape - Dun & Bradstreet risk & compliance products
• Market landscape - Thomson Reuters risk & compliance products

Data analytics

• Insights and actions report from the Research Focus "Data analytics - ready your information service"
• Jinfo report - data analytics & licensing
• Market landscape - data analytics & licensing
• Jinfo survey on data analytics - 2016
• Market landscape - Natural Language Generation tools
• Market landscape - the leaders in big pharma data visualisation
• Jinfo model - researching and planning for data analytics risks
• Market landscape - business intelligence and data visualisation platforms
• Jinfo model - create your 12-month plan for data analytics

Webinars - recordings available to view for anyone with a Jinfo Subscription

• How information services can best work with the many stakeholders of data analytics
• Identify - and overcome - the most common data analytics risks

Upcoming research and events

The current Research Focus, "Developing an information-savvy workforce through strategic alignments", runs from January - March 2017. Leverage relationships with such areas of the business as HR, training, IT and business units to embed a higher level of skill right where most information work is taking place - on the desktops of end users. Develop an effective strategy for workforce development, instead of struggling to get staff to come to training sessions or demos.

Webinars:

• 7th February: Finding the right partners to develop an information-savvy workforce
• 7th March: Best practices in effective, activity-based learning for information literacy

Community sessions:

• 15th February: Developing strategic alignments to nurture an information-savvy workforce, online teleconference
• 15th March: Tracking your organisation's journey to information literacy, online teleconference

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