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April 2004

ARTICLES
Information services and corporate growth (abstract)
Chances are, growth is a high priority for your organization. But recent studies show that large public companies have roughly a 10% chance of sustaining growth for more than 10 years. The Innovator's Solution, a recent book by a Harvard professor and Deloitte consultant, attempts to explain why — and what executives can do about it. Our review gives highlights of their theory and draws some implications for information professionals.
 
WHAT'S NEW
Bookstore
List of our favorite books with links to reviews, related articles, and course material.
 
Three new courses are now available in Web format:
Introduction to Knowledge Base Publishing
Application integration
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (formerly Best of BUSLIB-L)
Interactive tutorials
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets
Annotated links to current articles and interesting Web sites. This month includes Eileen Quam 's presentation at the Verity user's group (5.32 MB PPT).
 
How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)
An overview of our content and tips on how to use it.
 
Top 20 articles
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.
 
SEMINARS (see also the calendar listing)
Knowledge base editing retreat June 7 - 11 (Amherst, MA)
Five days of hands-on activities covering 5 topics — trends, creating quality content, basic taxonomies, advanced taxonomies, application integration.
 
Taxonomy maintenance June 22/23 (Enfield, CT)
Corporate taxonomies are not static structures. They need to be continually updated due to new content, organizational changes, and new business strategies. This two day workshop will define the issues associated with taxonomy maintenance and will help you develop a change control process that is customized to meet the needs of your organization. Includes hands-on activities with Web-based Lab.
 
Creating and using business taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
A hands-on course that covers the fundamentals of business taxonomies: how to do a needs analysis, create a controlled vocabulary, develop a thesaurus, and use taxonomy components in navigation. Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.
 
Integrating taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
A hands-on course that covers the creation and use of authorities as well as the development of two independent thesauri that are linked through cross references. Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.