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As we enter the final month of the Research Focus, "The information team with the right stuff", give some thought to how you can continue to access and benefit from these insights in the coming months:

Communications workshop

One of our findings identified executive-ready communications skills as a critical component of the most successful information teams. 

Jinfo Consulting offers a communications training workshop:

• Delivered in-person or via web meeting
• Customised to the needs of your team and environment
• Focused on practical changes you can start making immediately to make every touchpoint work harder.

Learn more about this offering and complete the request form to get started.

Webinar recordings

Did you miss one of the webinars in this Research Focus? We record them for later viewing. Click a link and sign in with your MyJinfo credentials to access the recording:

• The unique role of information professionals in an AI age
• Identifying your team's skill gaps
• Can you cope with continuous reinvention?

Community session notes

We do not record Community sessions, in order to preserve confidentiality. However, to enable you to get the benefit of the dialogue even if you cannot attend, we make anonymised notes available.

Click a link to sign in and download the notes:

• It's time to tear up your department
• Does everyone on your team need great communication skills?

...and there are still a few seats available for the final Community session of this Research Focus:

• Setting aside time for strategy (21st June, 4pm BST)

Create the future

The information team with the right stuff creates the future, rather than waiting for it to happen. 

Helping you do so is Jinfo's goal. Your Jinfo Subscription is your toolkit, peer group and inspiration.

Robin Neidorf
Director of Research and Head of Consulting

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Hone your team's communication skills with Jinfo Consulting

Jinfo Consulting's in-person or online workshops on communication skills offer the ideal opportunity to develop your team's communication with stakeholders, vendors and end-users.

Designed to meet your team's specific challenges, you'll benefit from our toolkit covering communications from emails to project deliverables, our guidance on customer-focused touchpoints, and our models to set effective targets and priorities for communication.

Find out more or contact Robin Neidorf, our Head of Consulting, to find out more.

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Subscription

A Jinfo Subscription connects your team with the practical tools, original research and expertise to build and support information strategy in your organisation. Learn more.

If you already have a Jinfo Subscription, sign in to MyJinfo.

Content

Articles, reports and webinars that help you save time and money and plan for the future... any time, without leaving your desk.

Articles:

• Upgrade communication skills to reshape business interactions on 4th June
• Developing new skills and evolving relationships on 28th May
• How to be an effective communicator on 24th May

Reports:

• Jinfo discovery report 2018 on 4th June
• Product review of NewsEdge from Acquire Media on 31st May
• Market landscape - managing subscriptions on 25th May

Webinars:

• Intelligence platforms - overcome platform perplexity with our panel discussion on 28th June
• Practical applications of Jinfo's 2018 benchmarking research on 19th July
• State of the industry for automation on 23rd August
• Shedding light on how to measure value on 27th September

 

Community

An unmatched forum for frank, confidential discussions with your peers, based on our original insights and proprietary tools.

• Setting aside time for strategy on 21st June
• Jinfo for optimising a team of researchers - "reengineering principles" + your burning questions on 2nd July
• Whole-portfolio strategy and management on 11th July, 1st August and 12th September
• Using Jinfo's model for value basis for operations to improve your service on 26th July
• Jinfo for content purchasing - holistic management + your burning issues on 6th August
• Benchmarking for your sector (professional services and legal) on 9th August
• Benchmarking for your sector (life science) on 16th August
• Jinfo for information strategy - "get with the programme" + your burning questions on 5th September
• Benchmarking for your sector (finance) on 13th September
• Benchmarking for your sector (manufacturing) on 20th September

 

 

Subscription Tip: All Jinfo Subscriptions entitle you to attend our regular webinars, live or recorded. Browse our events today.

 

Who benefits from a Jinfo Subscription?

Our all-original research is for you and your team if you are responsible for content purchasing, information strategy and optimising your research service.

A Jinfo Subscription has these benefits:

• Saves time by using our original research and practical resources
• Define, communicate and measure information value
• Reinvent information services through insight into what the best companies do.

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Consulting

Bring our insights in-house. We'll work with you to make strategic changes in operations, enhance stakeholder relationships and future-proof your information service. Learn more

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"The information team with the right stuff"
Our Research Focus for April to June 2018

Adapting and evolving to meet new challenges is essential for your information team.

New skills and attitudes can ensure you're at the centre of strategic business challenges and decisions.

Our Research Focus, "The information team with the right stuff", will equip you with our original research, insights and experience to meet this challenge.

Learn more and request a free copy of the Insights and Actions report »

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Blog

• My Favourite Tipples from a digital disruption tracker on 6th June
  My Favourite Tipples are shared by Scott Brown, senior cybrarian at Oracle, Inc. and owner of Social Information Group. He shares a few of his favourite online sources from the perspective of "digital disruption", a hot topic in the high-tech industry.
  
  
• Jinfo for optimising your research service on 4th June
  Is your research team performing as best it could? Jinfo's director of research, Robin Neidorf, provides some tips, insights and models on how to position your #information #research department as internal consultants, how to find ways to add value to the business and how to cope with the fast-pace of changes impacting on the profession.
  
  
• African research - how one organisation is bringing it out of hiding on 31st May
  Jinfo recently interviewed Susan Murray, the executive director of African Journals OnLine (AJOL) - find out why we were particularly interested in this non-profit organisation.
  
  
• ConTech - transforming content through data science, AI and other emerging technologies on 25th May
  ConTech is a brand new event taking place this November in London which will focus on the key issues affecting the information profession, especially the impact of new and emerging technologies on content creation, distribution and consumption. Transformative technologies such as machine learning and AI are at the forefront of this change and conference sessions will offer practical advice on how to make the most of data science opportunities. And you can benefit from a discount if you sign up now.
  
  
• Research update - are you a visionary leader? on 24th May
  Developing leadership skills involves more than vision and energy, find out how Jinfo's resources, events and briefings can help.

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