Volomonitor - the Internet Gold Miner (2005:2)
Volomonitor is a highly innovative and unusual information management tool. It is unique. It may well be a arbinger of similar products that "sample" the Internet and then structure the retrieved data to create exclusive views of a particular subject area..
The Ideal Online News Service
(2005:2)
Online information providers must remember that the primary benefit of their services is to save users’ expensive executive time. If they keep this in mind when making changes they cannot go far wrong.
Factiva Companies and Executives
(2005:1)
There are three things to remember when considering the benefits of Factiva Companies and Executives – Design, Design and Design. It looks good, feels good and is brilliantly put together!
MergerMarket (MM) for M&A … mm yes please!
(2004:3)
MM has to be a daily working tool for all on-the-ball M&A practioners. There are competitors, such as Bureau van Dijk’s Zephyr, but none that I know of that provide the breadth of data needed in the format required by bonus-hungry City individuals.
Dialog News Room
(2004:2)
I am very pleased to have "rediscovered" Dialog in this format. It is well-designed, well-indexed and includes a lot of useful sources not available elsewhere.
Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Information Units
but Did Not Have a Lifetime to Work Out
(2004:1)
This piece started out as a shortlist of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the benefit of my "management" i.e. the people with the purse strings. It was intended as an in-a-nutshell justification for the existence of my corporate information unit. It also conveniently doubled up as the justification for my own corporate existence – my apologia or credo .......
Key Business Resources - Company Financials (2003:2)
Company information comes in many forms – product launches, market share, news articles, general background information. One of the most frequently asked questions, though, is "Where can I find the accounts for company X?" The ease with which one can answer that depends on several factors ......
Key Business Resources - Direct Marketing
(2003:3)
Buying into direct marketing services such as mailing lists used to be expensive unless you were prepared to spend hours haggling with the mailing list provider. The Internet has changed all that. Most list suppliers now either have a web site of their own that sells data direct to the marketeer or provide access to their lists via an "aggregator" such as Marketing File.
Why Library & Information Services Fail
(2003:2)
There are three components to the information triangle - users, providers and budget holders - and unless they are kept in balance it can quickly become a Bermuda triangle for disappearing corporate information units.
Marketing the Internal Library and Information Service - Part One (2002:3)
This article is Part One of a two part series on marketing internal information centres. Here we take a look at the theoretical aspects of marketing.
Marketing the Internal Library and Information Service - Part Two
(2003:1)
Based on the results of a case study undertaken in a large investment bank in the City of London, this second part focuses on a particularly successful marketing initiative, namely the development, implementation and maintenance of an Intranet site created using IBM Lotus Team Workplace• (formerly known as IBM Lotus Quickplace•).
Competitive Intelligence (2002:3)
This article looks at the small number of organisations which do offer useful access to educational material via the web.
The Cost and Value of Information Services (2002:2)
Times are hard. Money is tight. It is probably time (again) to open the hunting season on corporate information units. They are after all, in most bean counter's eyes, an expense and with everything free now on the Internet who needs these people however cheap they may be. No one will notice!
