KIMRA CONVERSATIONS

Every year, KIMRA brings together the people shaping the future of knowledge, information management, research and analysis — the practitioners running transformation inside their organisations, the suppliers building the tools, and the analysts making sense of it all. The KIMRA Conversations Podcast takes that same community and keeps the conversation going all year round. Expect candid interviews and case studies on: How research and knowledge functions are actually building AI strategies that work — not just experimenting Real transformation stories from law firms, consultancies and professional services, told by the people who led them The vendor and client sides of major AI implementations, side by side What's really happening with data procurement, vendor consolidation, and pricing in the AI era How the research and knowledge professions themselves are evolving — and what it means for skills and careers Same community. Same sharp thinking. Now on demand.

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  Episode #5

  KIMRA Conversations, Episode 5: Maribeth Martorana, Sapient Advisors

  Aug 25, 202652 minS1

  <p>Maribeth Martorana has spent her career on the inside of some of the biggest names in financial information, FactSet, Moody's Analytics and the CFA Institute, before founding Sapient Advisors to help financial data and information businesses build and invest more wisely. In this episode, she talks to Simon Burton about her career path, and what she's seeing right now across the industry as firms rush to invest in AI.</p><p></p><p>The conversation with Maribeth Martorana covers the challenges and successes of AI projects within information services businesses, focusing on mid-market firms. It delves into the importance...

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  Episode #4

  KIMRA Conversations, Episode 4: Max Friberg, Inex One

  Aug 20, 202632 minS1

  <p>Max Friberg spent years as a consultant using expert networks for due diligence work before founding Inex One, built specifically to bring together the fragmented world of expert networks into one place. In this episode, he tells Simon Burton what actually made him build the business, and why aggregating across so many different networks, rather than running just one, turned out to be the more valuable position to sit in.</p><p>We talk about the huge value that vantage point brings to Inex One's clients, being able to see across a whole industry's worth of expert network usage...

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  Episode #3

  KIMRA Conversations, Episode 3: CJ Anderson, Iron Carrot

  Aug 20, 202633 minS1

  <p>In this episode, Simon Burton talks to CJ Anderson, a qualified librarian with over 30 years in the information profession, and now founder of Iron Carrot a specialist data governance consultancy.</p><p>CJ explains how she helps firms build the right foundations for AI, by having the right conversations, and building the accountability, ownership and clear decision making processes around data that set a firm up to enable AI. We discuss why real AI readiness starts with getting your data in order, why that foundation is built through people and process.</p><p>We dig into what actually causes...

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  KIMRA Conversations Podcast, Episode 2: Dominic King, Accenture Research, Author Tools or Traps?

  Aug 17, 20261h 9mS1

  <p>Our latest KIMRA Conversations podcast with Dominic King from Accenture Research covered his latest book, "Tools or Traps? The Rising Social Cost of Unchecked Innovation" which talks about technology and the dependencies we build that are created with new technologies and how instant gratification is baked into the business models of many of these new technologies from social media to AI. We talked about technology, particularly AI, and how it's impacting the work of business researchers, what it means to truly think vs just deliver. As well as really digging into some of the issues around synthetic data and...

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  KIMRA Conversations Podcast, Episode 1: Ben Longman, Trendtype

  Aug 4, 202653 minS0

  <p> In our first ever KIMRA Podcast episode, Simon Burton talks to Ben Longman, founder and CEO of Trendtype, a specialist market intelligence company covering FMCG, consumer health and retail across Africa and the Middle East. Ben explains why so much data on African markets is poor or simply doesn't exist, why on-the-ground fieldwork keeps surfacing things desk research never would, and why AI can confidently hallucinate an entire academic source when the underlying evidence just isn't there.</p><p></p><p>"we'll suddenly realize that that there is a value in expertise, a value in specialism, a value in...

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