Answer Maven

Strategy. Intelligence. Answers.

Maximizing Return on Investment from your Organization's Information Center Operations.

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Strategy

Creating a roadmap to achieve the highest value from your organization’s information assets.

Intelligence

Assessing current resources against desired future achievements to make the most intelligent use of your current and potential new information assets.

Answers

Empowering you to mine your information investments – people and technologies – for the answers you need.

Who is Answer Maven?

Farm raised country girl. Information professional. Thought Leader. As comfortable in the middle of nowhere as on the streets of D.C. and Chicago.

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Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know.

— Richard Saul Wurman

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

— T. S. Eliot

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

— John Naisbitt

FROM THE ANSWER BLOG

AI: The Passive Fuel of Information Innovation

Apr 25, 2017

The explanatory phrase that content was king drove a lot of web development decisions over the past 20 years.  How people consumed content influenced the design and delivery. Responsive websites are essential today because mobile consumption drove traffic. Today there... read more
Maximizing the Value of Law Librarians in KM

Maximizing the Value of Law Librarians in KM

Oct 20, 2016

First, a note of explanation –  I have gotten out of the habit of blogging on a regular basis, but I keep a running list of things I’ve seen that I want to discuss.  So today, I offer up my reaction to one of those items. Earlier this year, Patrick... read more