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 As always, your suggestions for workshop topics are welcomed. Also, if you know a friend or colleague who would benefit from Quantum2, please encourage them to sign up today.
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Dear Quantum2 Member... Spotlight on Quantum2 InfoStar To nominate an information professional you know whose initiatives might also serve as inspiration to others, please see the criteria and nomination form at quantum.dialog.com/forms/nominate/. Our next group of Quantum2 InfoStar honorees will be announced at the London Online Information Conference and Exhibition which takes place from December 4–6, 2007. We are pleased to announce the re-launch of our Quantum2 website (http://quantum.dialog.com/). There is a fresh new look that aligns with other Thomson Scientific sites. And, we will be adding new features such as podcasts. We'll send you a notice when the first one is available and invite you to sign up for the regular broadcasts. Quantum2 Topic of the Month The ability to think strategically is one of those essential skills for success. To create a strategic plan, you must take in all the information around you — not only what's happening within your company, but what's happening in your markets and with your competitors — and turn that information into a plan that will help you reach your goals. A simple way to approach this is in terms of answering the five W's — who, what, when, where and why.
Look to your mission statement that describes why you exist and how you plan to succeed in satisfying customers.
Reviewing your products and services, as well as customer needs, will help determine what you are currently doing and why. Along the way, examine not only the strengths and weaknesses of your information center, but the opportunities and threats that exist in the organization. This analysis will help you determine the issues to be addressed when creating your goals and objectives.
Your vision statement of your specific purpose and what you will be when you achieve your goals and objectives will point to where you want to be in the future.
Your goals and objectives will inform the measurable activities and tasks that must be completed, portraying when and how you will get to your future. We hope this brief hint of strategic planning will whet your appetite for more. For those of you in London, we will be conducting a workshop on this topic. And throughout the coming year we will continue to address this issue. Upcoming Quantum2 Workshop — London Quantum2 members based in the UK may have noticed that it has been a while since we put on a workshop in our London office. Well, there has been a very good reason for this — we have moved to a new office location. I am pleased to let you know that we will be starting the workshops up again, and would like to give you advance notice of the next one in London on Tuesday, September 25, 2007. The topic is Strategic Planning for Information Services. Email notification has been sent to Quantum2 members in the UK. We look forward to welcoming you. |
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Quantum2 Highlights
Having the ability to anticipate the research needs
of her clients, as well as customize the information
she provides to fit those needs, is what makes Amy
Affelt so successful. As the Director of Database
Research for Lexecon, a Chicago-based economics consulting
firm, she is proud of the work produced by her team,
and knows the value of the research they provide.
To read more about how Amy serves her clients, read
her profile at