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55 Pages·2008·3.22 MB·English

by  Mike Rouech

ProQuest
The Gold Standard for Business Information
John Tsihlis, Regional Sales Director
Agenda
• Today's Challenge for
Information Professionals
• Who is ProQuest
• The ProQuest Advantage
• Q&A
Research shows what you may
already know!
Nearly two-thirds of the new jobs created in the last decade were
knowledge jobs.
Knowledge workers comprise the bulk of staffing in departments
including:
 Research and Development
 Marketing
 Legal
 Finance
 Human Resources
 Engineering
Source: State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute, 2002
Typical Knowledge worker’s day
looks like this
Define Problem
Research
Start new
Project -
research
Find a solution
Research
Implement
solution
Researchers are information rich but
time poor !
- Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching
for information.
- “An enterprise with 1,000 knowledge workers wastes $48,000 per
week ($2.5 million per year) due to an inability to locate and retrieve
information.”
- only 21% of respondents said they found the information they
needed 85% to 100% of the time.
- 40% of corporate users reported that they can not find the
information they need to do their jobs on their intranets.
Sources:
Studies by IDC
Working Council of CIO's
AIIM
Ford Motor Company
Reuters
Where are knowledge workers turning for
their information?
Research
Pros aggregators
Comprehensive
portable
Cons
Time consuming
Difficult to share
results
Pros
Easy access
Cons
Too much info
Lack of quality
Long time
searching
Source: Ridge Group, 2003
Challenges for an information
professional
• Reduce average time spent by knowledge workers
searching for reliable answers / increase productive
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• Increase search competence
– Introduce intuitive search interface to allow users to
become familiar and reduce web reliance (Google
phenomenon)
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• Who is ProQuest
• The ProQuest Advantage
• Q&A
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Agenda
• Today's Challenge for
Information Professionals
• Who is ProQuest
• The ProQuest Advantage
• Q&A