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Carving out time for strategic thinking
13th July 2018

Setting aside time for strategic planning when projects demand all of your time is challenging. In a recent Jinfo Community session, participants looked at how integrating strategy discussions into stakeholder and team member meetings can help you discover which workflows, products, and services need to be developed or discontinued to align with your future goals, as well as some practical next steps you can follow.

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Guide to value in the Jinfo Research Focus on benchmarking models
9th July 2018

Comparing our information services to others and looking at how we might improve or alter our services, structure and measures of value are at the heart of our Research Focus, "Benchmark information roles - Jinfo models of excellence". This article highlights some of the articles, interviews, models, webinars and Community sessions within the Research Focus and which organisations can use as fuel for innovation.

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Who owns the copyright material you find online?
6th July 2018

In her latest article, Clare Painter, Jinfo's copyright expert, talks about the implications of using "free" online material and how you can identify whether it is protected by copyright. She covers not only textual material and quotations but images, video and TV clips as well as social media and blogs. She also offers some practical steps you can follow to ensure you're not breaching copyright.

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Q&A with InferLink - connecting the dots using AI technology
5th July 2018

InferLink is an R&D company that develops technologies for aggregating, integrating and analysing information from multiple sources. Jinfo recently spoke to Dr Steven Minton, co-founder and president of the company, to find out more about what they do and about its spinoff companies, Evid Science, Cytenna, and Innotrieve. We find out about its unique research and innovation initiatives using AI and statistical inference methods and how information professionals can make the best use of InferLink's products.

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Q&A with Thomson Reuters Open Calais - tagging unstructured data
5th July 2018

Thomson Reuters is a global leader in the provision of legal, business and financial solutions to those in a range of industries. Open Calais uses open source NLP and machine learning algorithms that have been trained using Thomson Reuters' curated content that supports people, places, companies, facts, topics and events. Jinfo recently caught up with Ofer Harari, product expert and engagement manager for Intelligent Tagging at Open Calais to find out more about the product and its underlying technology, which uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms. We also highlight some use-cases and see how it can add value.

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How to get your project on the product development roadmap
3rd July 2018

Many information professionals struggle to get their project implemented and in this article Martin Murtland explains the product development process and how you can effectively sell your project. He gives an overview of the software development methodologies and some of the drawbacks as well as some practical steps you can take to ensure success.

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Jinfo benchmarking research (part 4 - strategy, value and vendors)
2nd July 2018

In the final part of Jinfo's benchmarking research, director of research, Robin Neidorf, analyses how the most successful information teams actively manage and develop their strategy, measurement metrics and budget. She reports on areas such as frequency of strategy updates, measurement of staff time on various activities, use of workflow and other efficiency tools, and breakdown of budget for content licensing.

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Product walkthrough - Evalueserve's Researchstream
29th June 2018

Despite digital advancements in recent years, there are still very few platforms available that help research or information teams manage their work. Whilst project management tools and intranets have proved to be of some value in supplementing the workflow of research, they require a great deal of time and experimentation to establish. This is where Researchstream, a new web-based collaborative platform from Evalueserve comes into its own. Read Jinfo's product walkthrough to find out how it can help with the challenge of managing a busy research service.

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Jinfo benchmarking research (part 3 - customers and adjacent services)
28th June 2018

In the third part of Jinfo's benchmarking research we report on questions around how the information team interacts with the business, including customer base, how they work with other departments, comparison of key customer groups by industry, and descriptions of services offered.

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Creating the conditions for information centre success
26th June 2018

Constant change is a fact of life in the information profession today and the pace of change is not slowing down. In a recent webinar, Jinfo's director of research, Robin Neidorf, discussed how team leaders can not only survive, but thrive, at a time when strategy, services and operations are all evolving. She described a structure used by many successful information teams to think about everyday tasks, and three factors that are critical to success in a fast-changing environment.

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