Our purpose could be summed up as "Jinfo enables you to realise your own vision as an Information Centre of Excellence."

Use our resources to define your vision, analyse the gaps between current reality and desired future state, and create the improvements that close those gaps.

Short on time? Here's my list of shortcuts to help you get to that result:

• Alignment with the Information Centre of Excellence model: use this article to orient yourself within our model, and compare your real-world challenges and strengths with those of the seven information managers we interviewed. Time: 8 minutes to read.
  
  
• Jinfo model - "known fors": this report walks you (and your team) through discussion to define your "known fors" - the aspirational vocabulary you want others in your organisation to use when they describe you. One team we worked with added "Better than Google!" to their aspirational "known fors" - what will you aspire to? Time: 45 minutes in a team meeting.
  
  
• Commercial awareness as part of strategy: even if you missed this webinar, you can catch the recording by signing in on the description page. Learn from industry expert, Barbara Hirsh, on what this toughest-of-characteristics means for information teams and how to develop it. Time: 60 minutes to listen to recording.
  
  
• Construct your roadmap to an Information Centre of Excellence: this Jinfo Consulting workshop, tailored to your specific needs, brings our analyst into your department to walk you through and provide detailed feedback and guidance on crafting your unique roadmap. Time: 90 days, workshop delivery through three web-based sessions.

Articles, reports, webinars and Community sessions are all included with your Jinfo Subscription. Jinfo Consulting workshops are fee-based projects designed to be cost-effective and value-driven. Start the conversation, and we'll design the package that turns your vision of a Centre of Excellence into reality. Whether you prefer DIY or hands-on assistance, Jinfo gets you to the result you need.

Robin Neidorf
Director of Research and Head of Consulting

Don't have time AND can't afford to miss?
Jinfo Consulting Quarterly Briefings are the answer.

"Quarterly briefings solve [the problem of limited time] with bite-sized sessions for the whole team, enabling everyone to align our activity to ensure we are ahead of the market and competitive." - financial and professional services industry

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Roles

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

Content purchasing

• Report: Market landscape - Linguamatics' competitors
• Article: Use-cases for Dow Jones DNA
• Article: Fair principles for copyright use - fair dealing (UK) and fair use (US)
• Article: Q&A with Factiva's Brian Gelinas, head of product strategy
• Article: Best approach to content and data product licensing
• Blog: Is it time to break up with a key supplier? Jinfo for content purchasing
• Community: Jinfo for content purchasing (4th May 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

• Report: Community deck - Jinfo for information strategy
• Report: Jinfo model - overcoming the challenges to progress
• Report: Webinar deck - Commercial awareness for information professionals
• Report: Market landscape - translation software and services
• Report: Community deck - commercial awareness for information professionals
• Article: Fair principles for copyright use - fair dealing (UK) and fair use (US)
• Article: Q&A with Go-Fair.org's Erik Schultes
• Blog: Align your strategy as a Centre of Excellence - Jinfo for information strategy
• 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 - translation software and services
• Blog: Right tools for the job - Jinfo for optimising an information team
• Community: Jinfo for Information Centres of Excellence (6th April 2020)
• Consulting: Check on the Jinfo Consulting workshop, "Supercharge remote productivity and value", to improve efficiency and create more time for higher value work - guaranteed progress in three months.

Subscription Tip: Missed a session? Download reports based on our Webinars and Community sessions

We publish reports based on the presentation decks, with speaker notes, for all Jinfo Webinars and Community sessions.

Sign in with your MyJinfo credentials and then click a title of any past session for links to access these reports.

Jinfo Focus

Our current Focus is "Remote Teams"

Newly remote? Jinfo's Focus on Remote Teams curates for you our research-based resources to enable your team to work just as effectively - or even more so. Get started on Focus page now.

Upcoming events in this Focus:

• Webinar: Three elements of remote team success (7th April 2020)
• Community session: How to set the right norms for your team (16th April 2020)
• Webinar: Operational components of a remote team (21st April 2020)
• Webinar: Communication components of a remote team (22nd April 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

• Remote teams communicate better when they pay attention to three things on 19th March
  A number of information teams, like much of the working world, may be facing up to the challenge of remote working as a team for the first time. Jinfo has a deep bank of knowledge and advice to call on, built up over years of work within its own operations and those of its customers. Here, we go through the three key things you need to get right.
  
  
• Research update - Closing the gap between strategy and action on 5th March
  For professionals struggling with time, strategy and resistance to change, Jinfo's Research Focus "The Information Centre of Excellence - commercial, consultative, collaborative" is a must. This final insight of the focus offers various options to help professionals move forward with strategy and optimisation.

"Our aim is to develop a roadmap that will allow us to forge our own path that aligns with the company, but does not flux in reaction to every change. Creating a strategic plan has been on our agenda for a couple of years; it was Jinfo's structure and the accountability of deadlines that finally moved us forward."
Director of information science and business intelligence, pharmaceutical industry
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