Following the successful 2001 survey, The Changing Role of the Information Professional, Outsell, Inc., enhanced the survey in 2002 by increasing the number of organizations and associations surveyed and by developing the survey to investigate the major content deployment functions of the world's leading institutions. The deployment functions have been defined by key groups within organizations; Information Professionals; Market Intelligence/Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence Professionals (MI/BI/CI); Corporate Training Professionals; and Knowledge Management Professionals. This briefing will be followed by six more in the series to be published over the coming months.
Executive summaries of the briefings based on the survey will be made available to SLA members only. For more information about the briefings please contact John Latham, jlatham@sla.org or 703-647-4915. If you wish to have a copy of any of the briefings in full, you will need to contact Roger Strouse at Outsell at rstrouse@outsellinc.com.
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- The Big Picture (June 2002, revised December 2002)
- Corporate Information Professional (Briefing published July 2002)
- Academic Information Professional (Briefing published September 2002)
- Government Information Professional (Briefing published August 2002)
- MI/BI/CI Professsional (Briefing published September 2002)
- Corporate Training Professional (Briefing published December 2002)
- Knowledge Management Professional (Briefing published November 2002)
Below are some of the highlights from the first briefing, The Big Picture.
"Corporate Information Functions Continue to Do More with Less"
.............corporate information center functions are down by an average of 30%
.............the typical corporate info pro now supports an average of 270 actual users, as opposed to 76 in 2001
.............many of the "disappearing" FTE's have moved to the business units they once served from an information center
"Content Deployers have Significant Buying Power"
............42% of budgets allocated to staffing
............44% spending for primary and secondary content resources
............53% on electronic versus print resources
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