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The most valuable thing you can do with your expertise is to drive your organisation's information strategy.

The most valuable thing you can do to ensure you deliver on that strategy is ongoing optimisation of your operations.

But it's not easy to make this shift. It's not like anyone is presenting you with a free month in which to do all this strategy and re-engineering.

Jinfo's Consulting Workshops give your team both structure and accountability to develop new ways of thinking and skills:

• Future-proof your information service
• Do better with less: workflow optimisation

Workshops can be tailored to your particular needs and focus, and our flexible delivery model brings the learning and practice into your workload so that your staff can cope whilst making changes.

Click a title above to learn more about these workshops. We can package both together for an unbeatable combination of fresh thinking and new skills./p>

Optimisation is the hard part

A Jinfo customer invited me to speak at the Business & Finance Division's breakfast at this week's SLA annual conference in Cleveland on "The Strategic Value of Strategic Planning". In developing the presentation, I realised I couldn't just talk about planning - I had to talk about what happens once the strategy is approved.

When you come back from a retreat and face an overflowing inbox, you have to ask yourself: what specifically are we going to do differently today, because of our new strategy? What do we have to stop doing? It's incredibly difficult to take a clear-eyed look at our own work processes, let alone undergo the sometimes painful process of optimisation.

We're asked all the time about strategy and planning for the future, less often about what has to change on a day-to-day basis to enable that strategy to be realised.

Check out our most recent blog item "Jinfo for optimising your research service" for new thinking and practical suggestions for how to incorporate difficult work into "business as usual".

Robin Neidorf
Director of Research and Head of Consulting

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Don't re-invent the wheel - use Jinfo models

Jinfo models are reports that provide frameworks for thinking about and working on common challenges information teams face:

• How to scale services
• Making the most of reporting structure
• Improving tech-readiness
• Developing value-based operations

Find the Jinfo model for your challenge today.

Included in a Jinfo Subscription.

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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.

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

Articles - view all:

• Functional partnerships and information services - how about that IT/IS relationship? on 19th June
• Product review of AREUSConnect from Iconitel (key advantages; introduction; contact details) on 12th June
• Sharing copyright in partnerships on 11th June

Reports - view all:

• Jinfo model - reporting into central strategy on 18th June
• Jinfo model - reporting into knowledge and know-how on 17th June
• Company landscape - Clarivate Analytics on 14th June
• Product review of AREUSConnect from Iconitel on 12th June
• Community deck - Jinfo for information strategy on 10th June
• Company landscape - Copyright Clearance Center's RightFind product suite on 7th June

Events

Webinars - at your desk learning - book now:

• Optimisation as the engine of Information Centre Excellence on 27th June
• The impact of reporting structure on your service efficiency - Jinfo's 2019 benchmarking research on 25th July

Community sessions - confidential live discussions - book now:

• Attributes of an Information Centre of Excellence on 20th June
• Jinfo for optimising your information service on 8th July
• Benchmarking for your sector (manufacturing) on 18th July

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Subscription Tip: Check out Jinfo's upcoming webinars and Community sessions and reserve your place today - included in your subscription.

 

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 or optimising your information service.

A Jinfo Subscription has these benefits:

• Saves time by using our original research and practical resources
• Gives you the tools to define, communicate and measure information value
• Helps you reinvent your information service 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

"The workshop was an enormous success, both for team-building and energy, as well as for the practical results that would support reengineering the service."

Jinfo Consulting workshops are flexible, adaptable, practical and cost-effective.
Learn more and request information »

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"Creating an Information Centre of Excellence"
Our Research Focus for April to June

Successful information teams share a number of traits, ways of working, services and values. We've analysed the most successful information teams to identify their commonalities to develop a flexible model for long-term success for any information team.

This Research Focus defines the characteristics shared by successful information centres who we define as "Information Centres of Excellence".

Learn more and get the insights »

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Blog

• My Favourite Tipples from a technology enthusiast on 19th June
  My Favourite Tipples are shared by Andy Tattersall, an information specialist at The School of Health and Related Research at The University of Sheffield. He highlights some tools which help disseminate information using images, visualisation and sound.
  
  
• Supercharge your strategy; focus on value on 18th June
  Find out how Jinfo workshops can help you find the time to invest in strategy and service development.
  
  
• Find out more about Jinfo's planning process on 14th June
  Find out more about how Jinfo plans its research, coverage of vendors, products, and key topics, and how we plan our events.
  
  
• Create your Information Centre of Excellence with these three ingredients on 10th June
  What are the ingredients you need to ensure your information centre performs at its best?
  
  
• Jinfo for optimising your information service on 7th June
  What's the biggest obstacle to optimising your team's operations? How can getting insights into your team characteristics and processes impact on improving the efficiency of your department's operations?
  
  
• Research update - information's critical role in business success on 6th June
  Do you need to enhance the way you communicate the importance reliable information and information strategy across your business? Find out how Jinfo resources can help.

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"I've been making a conscious effort to use Jinfo more for strategic challenges. Previously there were occasions when I didn't know where to start. Now if I have a challenge I start with research in Jinfo's Subscription content."
Head of information, finance sector
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