The Executive Summary of Outsell's Briefing "Information Management Best Practices: 2006 State of the Function" is now available for SLA members only.
Since 2000, Outsell has conducted annual benchmarking surveys of information management (IM) functions to gather baseline data on resourcing, service offerings, and operational matters. Outsell's database of thousands of IM benchmarks helps corporate, nonprofit, government, academic, and healthcare IM managers and their stakeholders understand where they stand relative to peer organizations, what trends are affecting IM functions, how libraries are morphing into digital information hubs, and a variety of other operational factors.
This briefing presents the highlights of Outsell's 2006 study. Key study findings are:
- For first time all four sectors, corporate, government, education and healthcare, will spend more than half their content budgets on digital content.
- Respondents are "Information Professionals" despite IM diversification.
- The most-offered services for IM functions are not changing significantly.
- Outsourcing is not as common as generally thought.
- Centralization of IM has platteaued overall.
The full Briefing can be obtained on Outsell's website or by contacting Roger Strouse, rstrouse@outsellinc.com
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