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By Catherine Dhanjal

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Jinfo has had a busy quarter producing a full range of articles, blogs, reports and webinars about content purchasing, knowledge management, information strategy and optimising a research team. Take a look back at our highlights, to take stock of where your organisation stands while contemplating your next steps.

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Every quarter, Jinfo publishes comment on what's innovative or irritating in each of the four key information roles we support. These comments are published on the blog along with the most pertinent articles, reports, webinars and Community sessions for each of those roles. These updates give our subscribers 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

Would you describe your information centre as a strategic resource or a transaction centre? Where would you like it to be? 

This is an area Jinfo Consulting often works on, where information centre heads want to move their department up in terms of perceived value into being seen as essential to the business achieving its strategic goals. Read "Jinfo for information strategy" to see the key steps and how to assess which activities to shed and which to streamline. 

Optimising your research service

Benchmarking your service against other research departments has always been hard to do with any degree of certainty. That's why this year Jinfo is developing a maturity model for research services, based on recent research and complemented by our consulting work. 

You can find out more about the variables you need to know to use our maturity model and about our three-layer approach to continuous improvement in "Jinfo for optimising your research service". 

Content purchasing

Keeping on top of the vendor landscape in terms of product launches, new sales models, mergers & acquisitions is a key reason for choosing a Jinfo Subscription, clients tell us. 

In "Jinfo for content purchasing" we look at the top four content buying pressures organisations are facing and point you to resources which can help. 

Knowledge management

Ensuring the entire workforce has information skills is a tall order, but one which is increasingly required in today's knowledge economy. With knowledge management functions sitting in very different places depending on the organisation, developing strong relationships with other departments is a must in order to ensure beginners reach the next tier of understanding and that power users achieve their full potential. 

Read "Jinfo for knowledge management" to get tips on building visibility, which technology to choose and how to train users and encourage them to take full advantage of knowledge management, content and workflow platforms.  

Find out more

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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