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At the start of 2020, we challenge you to engineer every service, licence and process that you handle in your department, to support your journey towards an Information Centre of Excellence.

Achieving this goal requires close scrutiny, always asking "why?" and questioning whether something regarded as valuable as recently as six months ago remains so.

This is why the first insight in our new Research Focus, "The Information Centre of Excellence - commercial, consultative, collaborative" reflects the importance of everything you do as part of your operations as a Centre of Excellence.

Register today for the full text of this insight to help seed your thinking during the first months of the year.

We'll then send you one insight each month through to March and provide links to resources we have produced to help you act.

Close the gap between idea and action

During this Research Focus, you can join Jinfo Webinar or Jinfo Community sessions that:

• Walk you through specific next steps for using our models to create practical plans
• Connect you with peers working on similar challenges
• Highlight the most urgent topics for you to consider in the coming year to lay the foundation for long-term success.

These sessions nudge you along the pathway to action, and are included in your Jinfo Subscription, along with all our articles and reports.

Jinfo Consulting can also help you make progress with your specific concerns. If you want to know more, contact Claire Laybats today.

Let's all have a great year.

Robin Neidorf
Director of Research and Head of Consulting

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Roles

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

Content purchasing

• Report: Product review of HBR SpendConnect
• Article: Key advantages; introduction; contact details
• Article: Sources - content and coverage
• Article: Technology - search & user interface; outputs & alerts; administration
• Article: Value - help & training; competitors; development; pricing
  
  
• Blog: Is it time to break up with a key supplier? Jinfo for content purchasing
• Community: Jinfo for content purchasing (17th February 2020)
• Consulting: More information teams have kicked off their Jinfo Consulting workshop, "Holistic portfolio management" to make their planning, reporting and management of content licensing more strategic. Learn more today.

Information strategy

• Blog: Overcoming the inertia... of motion - Jinfo for information strategy
• Community: Jinfo for information strategy (2nd March 2020)
• Consulting: Revise, improve or develop your strategy for 2020. Ask about Jinfo Consulting's workshop, "Future-proof your information service".

Optimising your information service

• Report: Market landscape - digital adoption platforms
• Blog: Right tools for the job - Jinfo for optimising an information team
• Consulting: Check on the Jinfo Consulting workshop, "Do better with less: workflow optimisation", to improve efficiency and create more time for higher value work - guaranteed progress in three months.

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Newly added to listings on our site: the ability to filter by type - blog, article, report, Webinar, Community session.

These options now appear at the top of any category listings, enabling you to jump to the type of resource you're interested in. See it in action at the top of this page listing resources in the current Research Focus.

Research Focus

"The Information Centre of Excellence - commercial, consultative, collaborative"
Our Research Focus for January to March

Jinfo's flexible model of the Information Centre of Excellence provides a framework for any information team - any size, industry, or range of services - to operate nimbly in our changing world.

Learn more and get the insights »

Insights and Actions report:

• Research Focus Insights and Actions "The Information Centre of Excellence - commercial, consultative, collaborative"

Upcoming events in this Research Focus:

• Webinar: State of the industry, 2020 (14th January 2020)
• Community session: State of the industry, 2020 (21st January 2020)
• Webinar: Content portfolio as part of strategy (11th February 2020)
• Community session: Maturity models for remote teams (18th February 2020)
• Webinar: Commercial awareness for information professionals (10th March 2020)
• Community session: Commercial awareness for information professionals (17th March 2020)

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 1 from Research Focus - every service, every licence, every day on 6th January
  The first insight from our Research Focus "The Information Centre of Excellence - commercial, consultative, collaborative" looks at how you can ensure that every service, license and process you handle needs to support your journey towards an Information Centre of Excellence.
  
  
• Join us for 2020 State of the Industry events on 19th December
  We've released the first of our Webinar and Community session dates for 2020, including our popular "State of the Industry" events. Find out how to book to secure your place.

"My background isn't in the information field, so when I first took over responsibility for my organisation's information centre last year, Jinfo was a great asset in getting familiar with best practices and advice. I read a lot of helpful Jinfo content in the early months of work, and again as I worked on developing our new information strategy."
Director, global insights, international standards organisation
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