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22 Bus. Info. Alert 1 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/busiale22 and id is 1 raw text is: Busin SS Information Alert Volumne 22, No. I January 2010 Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Business Information Review 2009 and the Outlook for 2010 by Sylvia James he beginning of a New Year is always a good time to look at a broad view of life and work in business information and I have been doing this for my articles each January for the last few years. So, contin- uing this tradition for January 2010, I have been thinking long and hard about business information prospects. For the last few months, I have also been researching several aspects of business information activity as I prepared to write this article. Working Conventionally or Not? The first and overwhelming impression I have looking back at 2009, was that the practice of formal business information research has taken a real battering in this recession economy. This is not surprising, but the list of in-house corporate business information units and departments that have closed grew ever longer during the year, following a similarly depressing trend during 2008. It would seem that the aspiring and ambi- tious business information professional has quite poor prospects forIn Tbis Issue landing a good job in an established discrete business research unit. This is indeed a very gloomy prospect to digest, as the in-house corpo- 1 Looking Back and Looking Ahead rate research centre has generally been regarded as both the place to Business Information Review 200 gain extensive and varied experience for those looking to enhance their and the Outlook for 2010 careers, as well as being the best training ground for new professionals. 2 From the Editor: I am not the only person with this apparently gloomy view. Sue Edgar, Researching an IPO in an article in Fall 2009, suggests that there may be an end to the in- 8 News and Trends: house corporate information unit, but that the trend may well be Global Warming - Business cyclical and there may well be a realisation that Google cannot answer Chilling all questions'. 10 Info Intro: The inevitability of business information unit closure was fairly easy Privatisation to predict in the current climate. The distribution and progress, or continued on page 4 : 9 U 0

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