The Future of the Information Professional Dr. Mark Burfoot April 16 th 2013 SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division

What to expect | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT2  The Landscape of Pharma today  What’s changing and how that impacts the information profession Working styles Emerging models Area of changing focus Big Data  What does it mean for the information professional  Building the Next Generation

| The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT3 But we still have our challenges.. The environment is not so bleak…..

Type of change | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT4  Working styles Mobility Perceptions/expectations  Emerging business models Open Innovation New collaborative styles  New markets  Changing focus  Big Data

 Mobility Access at work is critical for many job roles Access on-the-go is growing in importance  Perception If I can access non-work content easily I should be able to do this for work content Security should be seamless | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT5 Working Styles

 Open Innovation Increased challenge of sharing content with academic environment  Technology changes Multiple platforms More visual needs Real time access | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT6 Business Models Beach Incubator

 Healthcare informatics Patient records to social media  Geography R&D emerging in new places  Cultural challenges Leads to different expectations | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT7 New Markets, new information

 From blockbuster  Orphan Drugs  Niche opportunities  New Patient populations  Healthcare  Regen medicine  New technologies  Big Data | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT8 Change in focus

 What is it?  Healthcare data  Next Gen Sequence  Consortiums pooling resources and data  Other | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT9 Pausing on Big Data

Big Data has generated initiatives in Biomedical Research | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT10

| The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT11 Will more data improve quality? A key concern is still quality!

 Quality is always key  Refining the deluge to the interpretable solution - avoid the trap  Engineering the information  Expanding our toolsets  Developing the knowledge worker everywhere | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT12 The problem of the informatician and a challenge for the information scientist

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So how about today | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT14 What’s expected and how to adapt  Still a strong need for information Not so much the book library But.... -Simple access -Portals -Integration with tools and processes Still need the one-stop-shop approach The right information when needed Enabling the user -Specific domains of expertise, clinical, pharmacology, biological…… -Help, training, education Biggest area of need »How to use and take advantage of what we have »How to best integrate our solutions

Expanding/developing service means expanding the informed users not a bigger department | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT15  Expand the super users to extend your capability  Consider not only what is licensed or external Internal data is key for decisions People need easy access to both  Expand your channels for education Media variety On demand access Repeatable solutions

We need to cope with a variety of work styles | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT16

 Mobile views  Analysis views  Indexed feeds to be consumed and integrated | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT17 For Information professionals and end users Tools need to be flexible

New Skills and new expectations | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT18  The Professional over the next 5 years Comfortable with IT Able to build solutions in basic tools. -Today SharePoint, Spotfire, how to use an API  As IT professionals work to integrate, store, provide more analysis tools….. Information professionals have to lead the way with how to maximize value with what we are generating Become more integrated with the biomedical issues and problems to seek solutions

But there will be diversity | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT19  Those that can maximize learning and education will be critical to our success  Those that can engineer solutions will be pioneers  More focused teams to deal with key topics  Move the simple stuff out

 The curricula of information and knowledge management  The baseline of Information Technology skills  The ability to connect to pharma’s needs more proactively | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT20 And our next generation of information professionals?

The future worker’s needs will be demanding and constant! | The Future of the information Professional | Mark Burfoot |16 April 2013 | SLA-PHT21 Questions?