by answermaven | Dec 16, 2016 | Business, Feature 1, Strategic Planning
As 2016 winds down and I ramp up for 2017, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on a couple of things I’ve read this year. Two books stood out in my business reading and while I learned much from both of them, it was reassuring to realize I was already applying...
by answermaven | Nov 3, 2016 | Feature 1, Information Professionals, Strategic Planning, Technology, Value
On October 20, 2016, Kris Martin and I co-presented to the SLA Legal Division on HBR Consulting’s Evolving Libraries for Law Firms Survey. We shared highlights and observations from the survey and then discussed the survey findings in context of services and products...
by answermaven | Apr 17, 2014 | Information Professionals, Strategic Planning, Value
For the past couple of months I have been working on a great new project with HBR Consulting. HBR was awarded the opportunity to do a research study for the American Association of Law Libraries on the value of law libraries in today’s legal environment. The...
by answermaven | Jan 13, 2014 | Information Management, Information Professionals, Strategic Planning, Value
As I continue to work on my new Corporate Libraries study I am running across some interesting items about emerging services and the new ways to keep libraries relevant. Some of them are inspiring while others are a bit redundant and not exactly new. A September...
by answermaven | Jan 22, 2013 | Information Professionals, Knowledge Management, Strategic Planning, Strategic Social Media, Technology
I ran across this article, “Social Media Will Be Primary Channel for Engaging Customers, CEOs Predict” in Media Post. Besides feeling as though the headline might be more effective if rearranged the article has some some interesting statistics. 1700 CEOs were...
by answermaven | Dec 5, 2012 | Information Management, Information Professionals, Knowledge Management, Strategic Planning
I was browsing around the EDRM site last week and took a look at the developments for the Information Governance Reference Model. If you haven’t looked at this before, now might be a good time to do so. This framework addresses some model behaviors that can lead to a...