Research

As director of research for Jinfo, I have two main tasks in the last months of 2016:

1. Reflect on the urgent topics that emerged over the previous
   12 months
2. Plan for the big projects of early 2017.

Urgent topics

Every information service, if it is to thrive, must cement its position as a strategic asset to the business, rather than a transaction centre.

This is the most urgent topic of 2016. It was reflected and examined throughout all four of the Research Focus areas we covered this year, and highlighted in the opening editorials for the Insights & Actions report from each:

• Strategic alignment of IS and IT (January - March)
• Source expertise - what it means in a Google world (April - June)
• Content and technology for current awareness (July - September)
• Data analytics - ready your information service (October - December, report to be published shortly).

If you have not yet looked at the Insights & Actions reports, I urge you to use the links above to request yours today. The questions they raise and answers they suggest provide excellent fodder for strategic planning for the coming year.

Big projects for 2017

We're kicking off the new year with major consulting projects, focused on moving from transactions to strategy, with:

• A central bank
• An international industry association
• One of the main global accounting consultancies
• Several vendors of products and services for the information industry

... and that's in addition to our usual programme of research and publishing.

To help us support this work, we've expanded the team with some terrific new hires of talented professionals who bring new perspectives and skills to Jinfo.

We want your Jinfo Subscription to be an essential component of how your organisation maximises information expertise, putting it at the strategic centre of the business. If you want ideas or support for how to make that happen in 2017, contact me.

See you in the New Year.

Robin Neidorf
Director of Research

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Latest Reports:

• Product review of BMI Research on 12th December
  
  
• Jinfo survey on data analytics - 2016 on 8th December
  
  
• Market landscape - Natural Language Generation tools on 6th December

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Latest Articles:

• Data analytics & licensing - the role of business information aggregators on 14th December
  
  
• Data analytics & licensing - the role of company data providers on 14th December
  
  
• An overview of the fast-developing data analytics landscape (part 2) on 14th December
  
  
• What are information vendors doing to support data analytics? on 14th December
  
  
• Q&A with Evalueserve - harnessing insights through mind and machine on 13th December
  
  
• An overview of the fast-developing data analytics landscape (part 1) on 13th December
  
  
• Jinfo survey on data analytics (part 3 - biggest concerns about analytics) on 12th December
  
  
• Jinfo survey on data analytics (part 2 - current activities and attitudes around analytics) on 9th December
  
  
• How you can identify and influence data analytics projects on 9th December
  
  
• Jinfo survey on data analytics (part 1 - characteristics of respondents and positioning of analytics) on 8th December
  
  
• Generating textual narratives from structured data - key vendors on 2nd December
  
  
• What's at stake if information services are excluded from data analytics projects? on 2nd December
  
  

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Forthcoming Webinars and Community sessions:

• Assessing your organisation's information skills maturity (Webinar) on 10th January
  
  
• Finding the right partners to develop an information-savvy workforce (Webinar) on 7th February
  
  
• Best practices in effective, activity-based learning for information literacy (Webinar) on 7th March
  
  
• State of the industry, 2017 (Community Session) on 5th or 16th January
  
  
• Creating the roadmap towards information literacy (Community Session) on 18th January
  
  
• State of the industry, 2017 (In-Person) (Community Session) on 10th January - 6th February (Washington, Chicago, London, Amsterdam)
  
  
• Developing strategic alignments to nurture an information-savvy workforce (Community Session) on 15th February

Want more information on what's coming in Jinfo? We publish a "Forthcoming" PDF every month. Find it here »

Is the holiday season your time to catch up on what you've missed in Jinfo? Take the opportunity to revisit the four Research Focuses of 2016 and go through the articles, reports and webinars at your leisure.

Blog

Latest Jinfo Blog items:

• My Favourite Tipples from a pharma information centre manager on 14th December
  
  
• BMI Research can guide analytical decision-making on 14th December
  
  
• Be bold to get ahead now on data analytics on 13th December
  
  
• Research update - what information managers must know about data analytics on 1st December

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"The Research Focus, 'Source expertise - what it means in a Google world' helped us frame our discussions around the value of the information centre."
Head of information and knowledge Services, Manufacturing
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