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LEE GREENHOUSE
has 25 years of experience building, managing, and consulting to information businesses. He has served on the boards and advisory boards of several information services and technology companies. Read more >
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Transforming Information Companies
Today’s surprise announcement that the Washington Post Company is selling its flagship newspaper along with several other newspapers to Jeff Bezos is only part of a wider, ongoing story of transformation. Earlier this year, the company took a sharp turn … Continue reading
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Relationship Science: LinkedIn for the One Percent?
Relationship Science, a new company that bills itself as “the ultimate business development tool,” has been in the news because it recently raised $90 million from a set of marquee investors and, perhaps even more significantly, it is the follow-on … Continue reading
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Firestorm Over Elsevier Acquisition of Mendeley
Elsevier’s long-rumored acquisition of Mendeley was finally announced a week ago, touching off a reaction that demonstrates the ongoing tension between large academic publishers and their users as well as the pitfalls of open, networked communities. For Elsevier, Mendeley is … Continue reading
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Unlocking New Answers from Content
The annual NFAIS conference is a relatively unknown gem of an event for those of us interested in the future of the information business in the business, professional, and academic markets. (Full disclosure: I was on the planning committee for … Continue reading
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Sign of the Times: Thomson Sells Its Law School Publishing Business
In the mid-1990s, Thomson made the prescient decision to divest its sizable newspaper business, which was one of the foundations of its information business. Thomson again seems to have made the right call with its recent divestiture of its law … Continue reading
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Mendeley and the Power of Open Communities
Recent reports about Mendeley show the extent to which its open approach for sharing scholarly research seems to be catching on. The five-year old company, part citation manager, part collaborative research platform, and part social network, now claims to have … Continue reading
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This Database Tells a Story
At their best, databases aren’t just static repositories of information. They are tools that can help tell stories. One of the newest databases, the National Registry of Exonerations, shows just how eye-opening a story data can tell when it is … Continue reading
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Amazon’s Ambitious Agenda
The US Justice Department’s recent antitrust actions against the six largest book publishers for allegedly colluding in setting e-book prices comes as a nice boost for Amazon, whose pricing policies have long worried the publishers. Amazon, of course, doesn’t need … Continue reading
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It’s the Workflow, Stupid
It’s a rare information business these days that doesn’t have a mantra about embedding its services into its customer workflows. Providers of information content, applications, and services rightly recognize that facilitating more of their customers’ critical tasks increases their value … Continue reading
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History Ain’t Bunk
Studying history is a humbling experience, especially for those of us who make our living helping clients navigate changing times. History shows us that change was obvious, no matter how inevitable it may appear in hindsight. More specifically, the pace … Continue reading
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