An Independent Information Professional (IIP) provides a diverse range of services:
- Business Research and Analysis - Business reports; competitor/company
profiles and financials; scenario planning; financial, demographic and other
projections; strategic and business analysis and planning.
- Market and Industry Research and Analysis - Industry profiles; media
scans; clipping services or RSS feeds on industries or competitors; collection,
organization and filtering of data; environmental scans; patent literature
analysis; policy tracking and analysis; technology scouting; economic
development support.
- Online Information Searching - News searches; commercial database
literature searches.
- Information/Knowledge Management - Information and knowledge
management analysis and planning; document management systems; archive
organization; wiki development; oral histories; information audits.
- Writing, Editing and Document Creation - Writing customized reports,
white papers, and proposals; editing documents; textbook fact checking; defining
requirements.
- Training and Consulting - Presentations or workshops on research
techniques; consulting on information sources.
- Library Setup and Maintenance - Assessing an organization's needs for
a public or corporate library; space planning; collection development;
cataloging; maintenance of the library's in-house collection.