Information Management Services

XIST is company of selectively recruited, established information management practitioners and information technology experts. We provide an array of complementary IM/IT services to assist organizations effectively manage information, improve work processes and their online service delivery capabilities.

Our versatile combination of university educated and professionally trained resources including librarians, computer science programmers, computer engineers, business management consultants, academics, writers, editors, and graphic multimedia designers, enable us to deliver an extraordinary range of IM/IT services. These services include:

Information Management Services

Management Consulting

• Information management / knowledge management
• Facilitation (strategic planning, focus group studies, etc.)
• Strategic communications
• Informatics project management and project administration
• Performance measurement regimes

Planning

• Business plans
• Internet marketing plans
• Project plans and charters
• Succession plans
• Requirements identification and project scoping

Analysis and Design

• Information policy and standards
• User and management needs
• Information audits
• Software and information services licensing
• Business case development (metadata, thesaurus, taxonomies, portals, search engines, electronic news, etc.)
• Compliance assessments and audits against information policy (i.e. Common Look and Feel) and legislative requirements
• Business process reengineering and program support
• Governance frameworks and work flow models
• Metadata management, classification constructs [see our Library services]

Content Development

• Writing and editing (plain language for the web, marketing materials, communications packages, business plans, speeches, technical user manuals, analyst reports)
• Multimedia film, DVD, and video (promotional and documentary)
• Translation (English – French)