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Case Studies

Quantifying the Value of Your Information Center by Rewarding Your Customers
by Michelle Burylo. The author outlines how her company calculates the demonstrable value the Information Center brings to the Corporation — by rewarding the employees for effective use of information.

Return on Investment
by Marilyn Bromley. The author offers the details of her own foray into today's bottom-line thinking when faced with a request for an ROI analysis of the organization's information center. From initial preparation through establishing goals to the final product-a report and a presentation, there emerges a step-by-step plan for establishing the value of a relatively intangible asset: information. [PDF; 75Kb; 6pp]

Following Your Vision
by Mary Ellen Bates. An interview with Eugenie Prime, Manager of Corporate Libraries at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, about her vision of a new role for information services. Eugenie Prime discusses her concept of the research information refinery: raw information comes into the organization and is continuously placed into a more and more refined context through analysis, integration and connection to other information resulting in new formulations, products, business decisions and ideas. In this context, the return on information is measured by the growth and overall value of the organization's intellectual capital. [PDF; 63Kb; 6pp]

Finding Buried Treasure: An Introduction to Knowledge Sharing
by Thomson Legal & Regulatory Group. Tips on how to share knowledge within your organization. [Flash]

The Transition to Knowledge Management
by Mary E. Corcoran and Cheri A. Robison. Tips on how to organize and successfully manage a group. [PDF; 14Kb; 3pp]