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Special Libraries AssociationConnecting People and Information

Creating the Future:Five Global Trends Information Professionals Should Understand

Anne Caputo

President, SLA


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There aresome thingsyou learn best

in calm, andsome in

storm.~Willa Cather


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If you don'tknow where youare going, any

road will get youthere.

~Lewis Carroll


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Just lie downon the floor

and keep

calm.~John Dillinger


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Did You Know?

There are 31 billion searches in Google every month, in 2006 thisnumber was 2.7 billion

Time it took to reach a market audience of 50 million

Radio 38 years Television 13 years

Internet 4 years

iPod 3 years

Facebook 2 yearsSource: Media Convergence Forum

Rome in 2008 and New York in 2009


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Did you Know?

The computer in your cell phone today is 1 million times cheaper

1 thousand times more powerful

100 thousand times smaller

Than MITs most powerful computer in 1965

What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket.

What used to fit in your pocket will fit inside a blood cell in25 years


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Did You Know?

Number of Internet devices in use 1984 1,000

1992 1,000,000

2009 1,000,000,000

One weeks worth of content in The New York Timescontains more information than a person was likely tocome across in a lifetime in the 18th century

There were more video uploads to YouTube in the last 2

months than content on ALL network television since 1948


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Did You Know?

Last year Americans had access to 1,000,000,000,000 web pages

1,000,000+ new books

65,000 iPhone apps

10,500 radio stations

5,500 magazines

200+ cable television networks

240,000,000 televisions Of which 2,000,000 are in bathrooms


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What does this mean? Snap out of it!

We live in a time when

Change is constant

Flexibility matters Attitude is everything

We need to be

Positive

Interesting Inventive

Persistent


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Five global trends information

professionals should understand

Globalization

Distressed Markets Disintermediation

Disruptive technologies

Competition


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Globalization What does it mean?

Globalization is the trend of countries and culturesbecoming more connected through business,

governmental cooperation, mass media andother sectors.

People - Business

Governments - Information

Culture - Technology


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Globalization - Challenges

Clashing world views and values

Economic concerns

Homogeneity of cultures National identity

When two cultures trade with each other they tend to expand the

opportunities available to individualsTyler Cowen, Creative Destruction, 2004


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Globalization and Community

Interconnected personalnetworks and sites

350 million+ activeFacebook members

70% outside the US

Multimedia formats

Digital word of mouth

Recommendation,referral, review


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Globalization and the Knowledge Professional

Off-shoring of information functions

Global business culture

Alignment a global view of knowledgeprofessionals

And


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Distressed Markets

The global economy is in unchartedterritory, with world trade declining by

more in 2009 than it has in the entirepost-World War II period.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2010


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Distressed Markets How much?

Collapse of the global housing bubble

Bank solvency

Global stock market declines

Unemployment and underemployment


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Distressed Markets and the Knowledge Professional

Outsourcing services

Downsizing staff

Closing Information Centers Struggle to demonstrate value

And.


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Disintermediation

Definition

The elimination of intermediaries in the

supply chain, also referred to as in"cutting out the middlemen."

MarketingTerms.com


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Disintermediation Rise of the Individual


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Invasion of the Millennials

Born after 1978

Digital natives, Generation Y

Always connected

Multitasks fast

All information is good

Lives virtually

Setting digital trends for

everyone


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Disintermediation

"...executives at most firms admit that their ability to make gooddecisions needs improvement:

Only 3% describe their companies as 'experts' in

using business data to drive better decisions

Fewer than one-quarter (24%) rank their firms as'advanced practitioners'.

The Intelligent Enterprise: Creating a culture of speedy and efficient decision-making

A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit

December 2009


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Disintermediation and the Knowledge Professional

Do it yourself mentality

Struggle to show and prove value

Leads to or follows from disruptivetechnologies

And.

S


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EIU - Intelligent Enterprise

Recommendations Develop a more collaborative business

environment. Bottlenecks can be

removed by simplifying corporatestructures and fostering the flow ofinformation among departments.

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Recommendations Emphasize information governance as a

way to ensure the consistency, integrity andaccuracy of data. If resources or personnelare not sufficient to create a dedicated datagovernance function, then managers shouldfocus on implementing policies and

procedures.


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Recommendations Foster a culture of speedy and efficient

decision-making throughout the enterprise.This can be done by encouraging allcorporate functions to use accurate andtimely data from all parts of the businessthrough the adoption of appropriate tools

and processes.


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Disruptiveechnologies

Special Libraries Association


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90-9-1 Principle: The Inequality of

the Web

Source: Jakob Nielsen - Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.htmlhttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html


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Disruptive Technologies and Knowledge Professionals

Leads to and results fromdisintermediation

Change in entire service model And.


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What we call it What others might call it

Acquisitions

Collection Development

Cataloging

Taxonomy & Metadata

Reference

Library Instruction Online Searching

Information Analysis

Purchasing

Selection

Organization Classification

Customer assistance

Teaching/Training

Research

Market Intelligence

What does this mean?


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Monster.com Job Description

What company?

What heading?

What price?

EBay-PayPal

Research

$115,000


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