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Intelligence is dynamic - sources change, products undergo development, and most importantly, users get new inspiration all the time about what they want and need.

Your approach to delivering intelligence needs to be just as dynamic.

That's why the third insight in our "Research Focus: Intelligence systems - intelligence 2020" emphasises continuous improvement - your system is never "done", and the way you run it needs to incorporate responsive changes to your users' environment.

For more on this insight, register to get full text in your inbox. You'll get more detail on what continuous improvement looks like and how you can make it work for you and your team - without getting overwhelmed.

Practical assistance on improving intelligence

The resources we developed for this Research Focus provide practical assistance on measuring the value of current awareness, understanding the latest technologies to help streamline the process, and how to work with stakeholders so that they better understand the efforts and costs that go into providing them with that cleanly curated newsletter.

The Research Focus Insights and Actions report, available for download in your Jinfo Subscription, provides a thematic index to these resources - it's the most efficient way to stay on top of our research and how you can use it.

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Robin Neidorf
Director of Research and Head of Consulting

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Early results in the Jinfo Survey on "the data-driven landscape" identify what we call a confidence gap between the expertise needed on data licensing, management, tools and strategy, and the confidence information professionals have on these topic.

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Roles

Our latest research-based, practical resources support the following roles:

Content purchasing

• Report: Product review of RefTracker
• Article: Key advantages; introduction; contact details
• Article: Sources - content and coverage
• Article: Technology - search & user interface; APIs; outputs & alerts; administration
• Article: Value - competitors, development & pricing
  
  
• Blog: 2020 vision for strategic portfolio management - Jinfo for content purchasing
• Article: Reusing your organisation's own copyright material
• Article: Benefits of adding Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) to your licensing approach
• Article: How applying Centre of Excellence concepts can help product evaluation
• Community: Jinfo for content purchasing (17th February 2020)
• Consulting: Take content licensing to the next level with Jinfo Consulting's workshop, "Holistic portfolio management"

Information strategy

• Report: Community deck - closing the "news is easy" perception gap
• Blog: Overcoming the inertia... of motion - Jinfo for information strategy
• Webinar: Moving from current awareness to intelligence (5th December 2019)
• Community: Jinfo for information strategy (9th December 2019)
• Consulting: "Future-proof" your service, with Jinfo Consulting's workshop - tailored to the needs of your team and environment. Learn more »

Optimising your information service

• Report: Improving success through project piloting
• Article: What is piloting and why do it?
• Article: How to identify an appropriate pilot project and steps to put it in place
  
  
• Blog: To manage capacity, know your objectives - Jinfo for optimising your information service
• Article: Emerging technology for centres of excellence: chatbots & digital adoption platforms
• Article: Activating global teams
• Community: Jinfo for optimising your information service (6th January 2020)
• Consulting: The skills of optimisation can be learned in less than three months. Consider the Jinfo Consulting workshop, "Do better with less: workflow optimisation".

Subscription Tip: Can't make it to Community sessions? You don't lose out on the value. Anonymised notes are provided as a Jinfo Report following the session. Check out the most recent one, from our November session on "Closing the 'news is easy' perception gap". Download now »

Research Focus

"Intelligence systems - intelligence 2020"
Our Research Focus for October to December

In the 10 years plus we've been researching developments in news and current awareness, we've predicted and then seen a significant shift from current awareness to intelligence systems.

Learn more and get the insights »

Upcoming events in this Research Focus:

• Webinar: Moving from current awareness to intelligence (5th December 2019)

Evaluate your intelligence system

Evaluate and balance the ROI of your current awareness or intelligence programme with the help of Jinfo Consulting. Learn more now ».

What are the benefits of a Jinfo Subscription?

• 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.

Blog

• Insight 3 from Research Focus on intelligence - continuous improvement or bust on 28th November
  Evaluating intelligence was once something that information teams could afford to undertake only every two or three years. But those days are gone, replaced by a continuous process of improvement to maintain competitiveness. But with a well operated system, using the right tech and tools to remove the drudgery of data-gathering, this is well within your scope.
  
  
• Research update - Measure and improve ROI of your intelligence systems on 7th November
  Can you measure and demonstrate ROI on your intelligence systems, and improve them over time? Jinfo's Research Focus 'Intelligence systems - intelligence 2020' shows you how.

"We were invited to present to our firm's leadership team on our department strategy. Jinfo worked with us to develop a crisp, meaningful presentation. [Our Jinfo analyst] completely understood our niche mix of legal and consulting and was able to build on knowledge of similar work in per organisations. Our resulting messages to leadership are aspirational and understood by non-information professionals."
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