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I attended the UKCIF meeting last night with Gordon Murray Smith talking on competitive intelligence lessons learned within the dynamic mobile telecoms industry from his perspective from his time with Nokia. I was rather surprised to learn that Nokia started... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2013 at tfpl blog
I attended a couple of seminars recently, the first UKCIF with Philip Wood, ex COO of Cap Gemini Consulting presenting on the CXO perspective on the value of competitive and market intelligence and secondly NETIKX with Karen Blakeman and Graham... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2013 at tfpl blog
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Last week was a busy week of events and training courses for many in the industry and at TFPL it was particularly so. We held our Health Special Interest group evening kindly hosted by the BMA and chaired by Sue... Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2012 at tfpl blog
The latest NetIKX event took a look at the importance of demonstrating value and cost effectiveness to the organisation. Presenting was Roger Farby from the British Dental Association and Megan Roberts from Oxford Innovation. Key thoughts I took away with... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2012 at tfpl blog
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It was a sunny day at Henley Business School last Thursday as we arrived to join the Henley KM Forum for a network and sharing event. The topic this time was the impact of culture on developing and deploying a... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2012 at tfpl blog
There are plenty of articles out there at the moment on companies merging to join forces, re-inventing themselves to meet their clients changing needs and circumstances and to keep up with the speed of technological advances. In essence, they are... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2012 at tfpl blog
The Times Higher Education supplement reports ‘Publishers’ surpluses should further scholarship, say academics’ (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?ectioncode=26&storycode=420996&c=1). An interesting article with enlightening points of view from the academic community but where is this all going to lead? TFPL have been working closely with... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2012 at tfpl blog
Background TFPL had been developing an understanding of MHRA as an organization and discovered that the Information Services personnel had been substantially cut back at the same time as the department had invested a lot of money in its electronic... Continue reading
Posted Jul 30, 2012 at tfpl blog
In a recent survey TFPL conducted we found over 65% of respondents thought flexible time for learning was very important, in addition over 52% of those respondents felt that a set time and date for learning were the least important... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2012 at tfpl blog
This was the title of the UKCIF meeting I attended last night. The aim of the evening was to review and discuss the results of the recent survey that was conducted on how competitive intelligence is changing and developing within... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2012 at tfpl blog
We held our latest TFPL health special interest group at the BMA in Tavistock Square last Thursday evening. The theme of the evening was to address the future of current awareness services and how they might be maintained as the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 25, 2012 at tfpl blog
We recently ran our very first webinar and it was truly an international affair. Our speakers, Sean Campbell and Scott Swigart of Cascade Insights joined us for a very early session (it was 7am their time in the US) and... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2012 at tfpl blog
by Julia Hordle, Director of Recruitment UKCIF: Participate in the Inaugural Salary Survey, and obtain a copy of the briefing and enter the draw for a 2 Day SCIP Dublin Conference Ticket, 6th-8th November 2012 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UKCIF_Salary_Survey UKCIF, volunteers and volunteer... Continue reading
Posted Mar 2, 2012 at tfpl blog
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Monday night saw the first Connect networking evening of 2012. Our presentations looked to answer the question on whether KIM can really have an effect on organisations to develop their actions to be more socially responsible. We had two very... Continue reading
Posted Feb 22, 2012 at tfpl blog
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Author: Claire Valentine, Training Manager Last night’s event was the last event in our calendar for 2011 held at the Crowne Plaza in Blackfriars.In contrast to previous events there was just one presenter, Nick Davies. Nick is a trained barrister,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2011 at tfpl blog
Authors: John Davies, Head of Consultancy and Claire Valentine, Training Manager Last week we held our first joint, full day event with members of the Henley KM forum. Entitled ‘Making the same mistakes and creating the same problems? Stop! -... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Tom Green, Sales Executive, Training and Events Last night I attended the SLA Europe event ‘content creation - at what cost?’, kindly sponsored by Marketresearch.com and held in Aldgate’s Exchange. The premise of the evening was to address how... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Claire Valentine, Training Manager As one of the major conferences in our calendar approaches (Online Conference), I would like to add TFPL's support to our trainers presenting there, in particular Sandra Ward and Ian Wooler who will be delivering... Continue reading
Posted Nov 11, 2011 at tfpl blog
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Authors: Claire Valentine, Training Manager and Vivienne Winterman, Senior Consultant Tuesday this week saw us at another very successful and popular health SIG meeting hosted kindly for us by the BMA. The meeting, attended by over 35 delegates, was chaired... Continue reading
Posted Nov 10, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Claire Valentine, Training Manager We at TFPL have long be interested in the impact social media has on organisations. Following on from a survey that was conducted with Edinburgh Napier Univeristy in 2008, we are now happy to promote... Continue reading
Posted Oct 27, 2011 at tfpl blog
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Author: Julia Hordle, Director of Recruitment Let’s be honest, it isn’t often these days, that you go to an conference event expecting to interested in every topic and speaker on the schedule. Yesterday, we heard about the principles, potential and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Claire Valentine, Training Manager Last week I attended my first NetIKX meeting at the British Dental Association. Chris Collison was presenting on how as internal experts, knowledge and information professionals can use techniques such as ‘the river diagram’ to... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Tom Green, Sales Executive Training and Events As a new member of the training team at TFPL I thought I’d note down a few points gleaned from my work to date. In particular, Cloud technology and its future impact... Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Claire Valentine, Training Manager Last night we ran our second joint evening coaching event with the Henley KM Forum. The evening was hosted by Jane McKenzie, Director of the Forum in the beautiful surroundings of Henley Business School. Our... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2011 at tfpl blog
Author: Claire Valentine, Training Manager I am pleased to welcome our second guest blogger and speaker at our Cloud event in October, Simon Smith, COO Extrinsica. Below is a note from Simon around the subject of his talk: Debate continues... Continue reading
Posted Sep 15, 2011 at tfpl blog