This week's Sue Hill breakfast meeting provided a compelling snapshot of what is exercising information professionals across a wide range of sectors (health, law, property and more were represented).Several delegates reported that their organisations are working to develop new strategies and models to reflect the changing business landscape. Collaboration, both internally, but increasingly externally, is seen as a strategy for success - or at least survival. Organisational websites are no longer static ‘repositories' but are being opened up to collaborative content creation - with all the challenges that this might generate. Colleagues must learn to work more openly and in new matrix structures. There are opportunities for knowledge and information people to act as role models when it comes to collaborative working. It may not come as easily to others as it does to our profession.But it's not just our customers with whom we need to collaborate. There is also work to be done educating, informing, and exerting influence on those who seek to regulate and measure our business. We can assist in raising the profile, not just of our profession, but of our organisations and the sectors in which we work. We can help share success stories, internally and externally and have a role to play in helping our colleagues interpret, and maximise, internally generated knowledge. We can help our organisations mitigate information risk and maximise information value.Even against the backdrop of a challenging business landscape, the conversation was positive and energised. In hard times, we are the ‘good fairies' of our organisations - our good deeds bring business benefits!Suzanne from Sue Hill Recruitment has also blogged about this event. Click here for her review.