I attended a meeting of the Rocky Mountain chapter of SLA last night, mainly so I could hear Gloria Zamora, SLA president, talk about the SLA Alignment Project. One of the pieces of advice Gloria offered was to get our deliverables in front of the CEO of our organization. And that got me thinking that what a lot of info pros deliver isn't fit for a CEO -- it's a lot of information but not a distillation or analysis.
Info pros can raise their profile by creating deliverable in a format the CEO would read. If we make it upwardly-forwardable, we make it possible for our brand to make it all the way to upper management and strategic decision-makers, regardless of who originally requested the information.
Yeah. It's always amazed me that there aren't more info/knowledge pros sitting with members of a CEO's inner circle. Or at least having a one-on-one meeting with the CEO once a month or more. I can remember one CEO of a very large pharma company say how he would love to have an info pro sit by his side every day so he'd have someone to filter and locate information for him. -- a personal librarian, if you will.
Posted by: chris olson | November 19, 2009 at 02:14 PM