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Managing tomorrow's people - the future of work 2020

We are delighted to announce that Jackie Gittins, Director of HR Consultancy at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will address the inaugural TFPL Connect meeting, to be held at the RSA on February 21st 2008. 

In 2007, PwC undertook a scenario-based research project to explore the people management challenges of a variety of social, economic and population factors.  Jackie will outline the findings of the research, including the key themes and scenarios the researchers identified.

In addition, Kate Arnold of NHS Direct; Tony Sheenan of Ashridge Management College; Alun Davies of Lovells; and Alison Wellens of the Information Commissioner's Office will discuss the knowledge and information management challenges of Managing the future workforce. 

Social media - a noisy revolution!

Went to a really good event organised by the SLA last night. Antony Mayfield of Spannerworks did an excellent job outlining exactly what we mean by social media (or social networking) and the potential impact new media will have on organisations.  The message is clear - organisations have to embrace these new ways of publishing and distributing information.  Afterwards we all proved what excellent face-to-face (and noisy) social networkers we are over a glass of wine.

Who is managing information?

TFPL published their white paper  'Who is managing information?: information responsibilities in the digital world' this week.  It includes an 'Information Management Framework: responsibilities in the digital world'.  This Framework suggests 6 responsibility clusters:  information strategy; enterprise information architecture; information governance; creation and acquisition; communication and publication; information exploitation and use.  You can download the report and Framework  from our website www.tfpl.com

This is a topical subject.  There are number of streams on information skills and career development at the Online Information Conference this week and we will be presenting some of the conclusions of our white paper at a free seminar on the TFPL stand.  The recently formed IM Group are also presenting a seminar on IM skills as part of the IMS exhibtion. 

Do let us know what you think of the  Framework and you ideas for its development via the blog, by email, discussion at Online - or call us.

Consultancy - what's hot?

A snapshot of our current consultancy projects shows the following:

• Growth in clients requesting help with their content management and information architecture.  Current projects are typically driven by clients struggling to move from existing disparate systems to a consolidated content and/or document management platform.  We are  helping them define metadata schemas, file plans and subject taxonomies and assisting content clear up.
• Continuing demand for advice and support in reviewing and developing strategies for library and information services - for example, we continue to provide advice to UEFA in the running of their newly formed Documentation Centre on a day to day basis
• KM client work includes several knowledge harvesting projects and KM strategy development and support
• Team events and strategy facilitation - growth in the number of projects where we are helping teams to work together to develop strategy and implementation plans
• In-house training - records management continues to be in high demand.