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IPR Survey Summary Overview
 
  • The goal of this survey is to understand your information needs while working.
  • Survey questions focus on how you access the information you want for work, who and/or what you interact with to gather this information, and why.
  • Your company had a partner level participation rate of XY, a consultant level participation rate of XY and a research level participation rate of XY.
  • The average age of your work peers taking this survey is XY, with XY years of experience.
  • On average, your peers are happy with their current job (XY out of 5)

Question breakout for survey summary:

Section 1: Organizational Content
15 Questions
 overview
question detail
Section 2: Nature of Information
9 Questions
 overview
question detail
Section 3:
Source & Value
8 Questions
 overview
question detail
Section 4: Processing
13 Questions
 overview
question detail
Section 5: Background
7 Questions
 overview,
question detail
Total
52 Questions
  The following tables represent each section overview. Each row contains a link to the question, question copy, your response and company average. You can hop across section overviews by clicking the links above each section overview header.
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Section 1: Organizational Content
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your response
partner avg.
consultant avg.
research avg.
1
Company colleagues give me credit for ideas and information that I share
XY
3.73
4.12
4.29
2
 Colleagues are always willing to share their private search information with me
XY
3.79
3.90
3.78
3
 I volunteer all relevant information to colleagues
XY
4.71
4.76
4.94
4 A lot of my personal knowledge never makes it into the company database
XY
2.55
2.74
2.53
5

For valuable information that never makes it into the company database the main reasons are that it is…: (A) Too time consuming. tedious, (B) Too valuable to me personally, and (C) No place to put unusual data
az
A
72.9%
B
4.3%
C
22.9%
A
65.3%
B
12.6%
C
26.4%
A
65.8%
B
8.5%
C
25.8%
6
 My job tasks are highly inter-dependent with other people's tasks. I must often coordinate with other team members
XY
3.90
3.52
3.91
7
 We use information systems to coordinate schedules, deadlines, and project hand-offs
XY
4.07
3.27
4.03
8
 I need as much information as possible before making a decision about a candidate
XY
4.31
4.57
3.75
9
 I know of at least one person in our company who has experimented with new ways of doing business in the past year
XY
4.53
3.68
3.82
10
 My compensation structure has the relative weights...: (A) My individual performance, (B) My project team(s) performance, and (C) My whole company performance
az
A
75.5%
B
8.8%
C
16.9%
A
58.8%
B
23.2%
C
18.1%
A
59.6%
B
15.0%
C
25.4%
11
 My compensation is based on objective facts and hard data; nothing is subjective
XY
4.59
4.25
2.42
12
 Among the people who do have input on my ultimate compensation, the relative weights of their contributions are : (A) Supervisors, (B) Mentors, (C) Peers, (D) Subordinates, and (E) Clients.
az
A
42.5%
B
2.6%
C
4.7%
D
5.5%
E
44.7%
A
78.0%
B
4.1%
C
2.8%
D
2.4%
E
13.3%
A
80.0%
B
2.9%
C
1.4%
D
1.4%
E
14.3%
13
 I feel pressured to perform at least as well as my peers
XY
5.22
4.96
4.82
47
 I have provided extensive mentoring to others within this company
XY
 3.47 2.94 3.15
48
 Since joining this firm, the amount I have learned from others about how to do my job is
XY
3.70
4.17
4.28
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Section 2: Nature of Information
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your response
partner avg.
consultant avg.
research avg.
14
My data requirements are highly routine. I could specify all I need on standard forms
XY
3.10
2.83
3.31
15
 For information that is routine, the process of getting it has been automated
XY
4.24
3.94
4.10
16
 There are multiple available sources for the information I require; if one source becomes un-available or my needs change suddenly, there is usually another source
XY
4.07
3.09
4.10
17 It is perfectly OK to misrepresent the true purpose of a phone call in order to get information about a candidate
XY
1.21
1.10
0.86
18

The information in our corporate database is highly accurate

XY
3.42
2.52
3.46
19 The people with whom I trade information have a background that is very similar to my own
XY
3.33
2.76
2.65
20 The social networks of the people I know are strongly overlapping
XY
3.20
3.18
2.96
22 The proportion of e-mail messages I actually read is
XY
87.9%
89.9%
95.4%
23
 The information content I share with others is typically (0 - factual data, 6 - process tips)
XY
2.96
2.46
2.64
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Section 3: Sources & Value
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your response
partner avg.
consultant avg.
research avg.
24
 How many people do you communicate with on a typical day...in the following modes:
(A) Face to face, (B) Phone, (C) E-mail, (D) Instant Messaging, (E) Physical Letter or Hardcopy, and (F) Other
XY
A
7.62
B
27.62
C
35.57
D
0.10
E
5.52
F
0.00
total = 76.43
A
7.08
B
28.13
C
29.42
D
1.42
E
4.04
F
0.00
total = 70.08
A
9.43
B
13.07
C
17.21
D
0.07
E
0.43
F
0.00
total = 40.21
25
 In terms of relative time, I spend the most hours dealing with information from these sources: (A) My project team, (B) Company colleagues not on my project, (C) People outside my company, (D) Public access Web pages, (E) Our internal database, (F) External proprietary databases, (G) News or Trade press,and (H) Other
XY
A
31.9%
B
10.9%
C
26.2%
D
4.9%
E
19.5%
F
2.2%
G
4.9%
H
0.0%
A
20.3%
B
5.9%
C
34.9%
D
5.4%
E
26.8%
F
3.5%
G
3.2%
H
0.0%
A
10.8%
B
5.9%
C
16.4%
D
24.3%
E
33.1%
F
7.3%
G
4.3%
H
0.0%
26 In terms of relative value, the best information comes from these sources: (A) My project team, (B) Company colleagues not on my project, (C) People outside my company, (D) Public access Web pages, (E) Our internal database, (F) External proprietary databases, (G) News or Trade press,and (H) Other

XY
A
31.5%
B
13.7%
C
19.5%
D
3.7%
E
23.0%
F
2.1%
G
6.4%
H
0.0%
A
19.1%
B
13.8%
C
28.8%
D
4.7%
E
28.5%
F
1.4%
G
3.7%
H
0.0%
A
16.6%
B
10.4%
C
8.2%
D
22.0%
E
31.3%
F
6.9%
G
4.6%
H
0.0%
27

What proportion of your time do you spend on the following modes of information gathering?: (A) Face to face, (B) Phone, (C) E-mail, (D) Instant Messaging, (E) Computer display (F) Hardcopy, and (G) Other
XY
A
25.7%
B
39.7%
C
24.3%
D
0.0%
E
4.8%
F
5.7%
G
0.0%
A
13.2%
B
48.1%
C
22.3%
D
1.6%
E
9.6%
F
5.2%
G
0.0%
A
10.7%
B
34.6%
C
22.4%
D
0.0%
E
28.2%
F
4.1%
G
0.0%
28 What proportion of your value do you get from the following modes of information gathering?: (A) Face to face, (B) Phone, (C) E-mail, (D) Instant Messaging, (E) Computer Display (F) Hardcopy, and (G) Other
XY
A
39.1%
B
32.0%
C
20.6%
D
0.0%
E
2.0%
F
6.5%
G
0.0%
A
28.5%
B
40.6%
C
19.5%
D
1.5%
E
5.6%
F
4.3%
G
0.0%
A
18.2%
B
33.9%
C
24.3%
D
0.0%
E
20.0%
F
3.6%
G
0.0%
29 Please list ANY three ways your information support could improve (or simply state that you're "happy" with it)
XY
11 Happy, 4 No Response, 48 Specific comments
30 What resources are essential to doing your job? These can be anything
XY
Approximate number of times responses pertaining to the following categories of resources were mentioned:
100 Information Technologies, 20 People,
40 Specific Information
31 Information overload has caused me to perform at less than my best
XY
2.81
2.82
2.69
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Section 4: Processing
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your response
partner avg.
consultant avg.
research avg.
21
Who initiates sending data at your firm? At the "supplied" extreme, someone else or an automated system pushes data out to you and initiates sending. At the "requested" extreme, you have to initiate all requests and pull data for yourself
XY
3.85
4.50
3.23
32
 After returning from a long absence, your mail and e-mail boxes are full. What types of information do you …NEVER/ALWAYS read: (A) NEVER read "spam" (descriptions of spam vary), (B) ALWAYS read items job related/from known senders or both, (C) ALWAYS read anything that is NOT spam, (D) ALWAYS Review all/everything, (E) Non respondents for both parts of the question
XY
A
54
B
44
C
8
D
2
E
2
33
 In terms of how I spend my time, my communications patterns pretty much returned to the same routine pattern after significant world events events like 9/11 or the April stock market crash
XY
4.43
4.16
4.87
39 We gather a lot of information about our internal processes such as operating efficiencies and success rates
XY
3.43
2.51
2.56
40

We gather a lot of information about external events and activities such as competitive threats, economic trends, and our perception in the marketplace

XY
2.91
2.94
3.03
41 We mine our data for interesting patterns, correlations, and new ideas
XY
2.94
1.84
3.32
42 We try to anticipate important changes in the marketplace and adjust our resources accordingly
XY
2.91
2.22
2.91
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Section 5: Background
(show section detail)
your response
partner avg.
consultant avg.
research avg.
34
I am highly effective interacting with people on the phone. This means I am both persuasive in pitching an opportunity and successful in gathering corporate intelligence
XY
4.88
4.93
3.88
35
 I am highly effective at using our in-house proprietary search tools. This means I know what information they contain and I can easily find, add, and modify the records I need
XY
3.61
4.25
4.97
36
 When I use the web to find information it is..
XY
3.53
3.70
4.09
37 I have control over the information I use; I can access and modify it at will
XY
3.39
3.69
4.27
38

There are severe costs to not having the right information when I need it

XY
4.37
4.66
4.31
43 I was born in 19xx
XY
51.3
58.3
72.9
44 My total years of education are (Grammar School 1-8 yrs, High School 12, Some College 13,14,15, College Degree 16, Masters or Professional Degree 18, PhD 20,21+... yrs.)
XY
18.4
17.0
17.0
45 My total number of years of industry experience are
XY
21.7
11.5
3.5
46 Information technology has increased my ability to handle more projects at the same time
XY
4.65
4.79
4.83
49 My areas of specialization or expertise are (please use commas to separate):  
n/a
n/a
n/a
50 How many people are in your personal Rolodex, DayTimer, or PalmPilot?
XY
476.8
362.4
26.7
51 I am happy in my current job
XY
4.54
4.18
3.96
52 Please comment on any aspect of this survey. We're interested in anything we may have misinterpreted or overlooked. Both positive and negative comments are welcome (if no thoughts, just enter "none"): (A) None, (B) Constructive criticism on the survey, (C) Additional insights into your work, (D) Encouragement on the research project
XY
A
34
B
13
C
10
D
3
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