Publishing, Information Industry, and Information Management
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BMJ Group: Meeting Challenge through Innovation and DiversificationThe BMJ Publishing Group Limited, or “BMJ Group”, has grown from its roots as the publisher of the British Medical Journal to offering a portfolio of products across conventional content, workflow products, and educational products. Facing disruption to its core revenue streams, it continues to innovate its way out of trouble and is now poised for greater international expansion, thereby taking on some of the largest STM publishers on the planet. Publishers and information providers can draw lessons from BMJ’s innovation and expansion.
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Demand Media: This Online Pied Piper Draws Large Audiences Using a Disruptive Publishing ModelDemand Media has grown from a start-up to a firm with annual revenue of $225 million in under three years. Its success challenges B2B publishers to ask, “What are they doing right?” and “What aspects of their model should we adopt?” The disruptive business model that Demand Media applies uniformly to both its B2B and B2C sites is powerfully instructive and sets a new standard and lofty benchmarks for solving the problems vexing B2B trade publishers in audience development, organization, and staffing. Demand Media provides a dramatic alternative and potentially threatening model for B2B trade publishers. This is the fourth in our “New Face of Publishing” series featuring disruptive companies; previous reports covered.
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K-12 Assessment Content Market: 2008 Market Forecast and Trends ReportThe K-12 assessment content market is an emerging and dynamic market, driven by the achievement and accountability principles and annual testing requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. This report provides a detailed picture and analysis of the K-12 assessment content market. Based primarily on supply-side analysis, it includes market sizing, forecasts, and coverage of the competitive landscape and market trends including relevant public policy and legislation developments.
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Scientific, Technical & Medical Information: 2008 Market Forecast and Trends ReportThis report includes detailed analysis of market trends and our forecast for growth and performance through 2011 of the Scientific, Technical & Medical Information (STM) segment. This segment helps fuel worldwide innovation by supporting the publication of primary research and by delivering data such as articles, books, patents, specifications, chemical properties, seismic data, and other STM information to scientists, engineers, and clinicians. The report also examines up-and-coming players in this segment and the disruptive forces they embody.
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Practical Law Company: British Invasion Brings a KM Model to US Legal MarketPractical Law Company (PLC) is on a mission to drive inefficiencies out of the way business law is practiced. The company has established itself as a respected player in the UK, and with a new CEO is setting its sights on the US. PLC’s “by lawyers for lawyers” approach was established well before current ideas of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing took root, but has grown increasingly relevant as the legal services industry grapples with pressures to control costs and meet client demands for efficiency.
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TowerGroup: Strong Research and Advisory Player in Financial Services VerticalTowerGroup, a US-based firm, has created a strong position in the market by providing research, syndicated services, events, training, reports, and custom consulting to the financial services industry. The company is No. 10 in Outsell’s IT & Telecom Research, Reports & Services (ITTRRS) segment of the information industry, with 2007 revenues of $28.4 million. It was the fastest growing company within the top 10 in 2007. TowerGroup is on the leading edge of the turmoil in the financial services market as its clients, financial service companies, experience the upheaval first-hand. Its fundamentals are strong and it is in a position to ride out the storm and capitalize on opportunities to serve that market.
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Postsecondary Education: 2008 Market Forecast and Trends ReportThis report analyzes market trends and provides our forecast for growth and performance through 2011 of the US Postsecondary Education segment. It also examines disruptors and innovators in this segment. The Postsecondary Education segment is comprised of content, technology, and institutional services subsegments.
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B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information: 2008 Market Forecast and Trends ReportThis report includes detailed analysis of market trends and our forecast for growth and performance through 2011 of the B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information segment, which provides professionals with must-read trade content and offers advertisers effective methods of contacting, informing, and influencing their key buyers. The report also examines up-and-coming players in this segment and the disruptive forces they embody.
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Hakia: Upstart Semantic Search Player You Need to WatchA perfect storm of cheap computing horsepower, advanced software technology, and burgeoning content is converging to create momentum in semantic search. Hakia is one of the more promising companies within the crowded field of new entrants looking to wrestle some of the general web search market away from the established players. Hakia’s core differentiator is its ability to conduct scalable, semantic search. Its robust definition of semantics and economic execution might enable it to grab a healthy share of long-tail searches and disrupt those publishers that have come to primarily rely on search engine optimization to drive traffic to their sites.
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Legal, Tax & Regulatory Information: 2008 Market Forecast and Trends ReportThis report includes detailed analysis of market trends and our forecast for growth and performance through 2011 of the Legal, Tax & Regulatory (LTR) Information segment. It also examines up-and-coming players in this segment and the disruptive forces they embody.
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