Ideas on value, change and information
Practical thinking on transformation, Economic Process Modelling, information value and making change work.
Efficiency Tells You What a Process Costs. It Won’t Tell You What It’s Worth
Thom Hornback has spent two decades running large implementation projects inside big organisations. Six Sigma black belt, PMP, and someone who thinks hard about the people side of change. When he…
Key Questions Board Members Ask CEOs About AI Implementation
We are hearing that CEOs are under increasing pressure from their Boards to create plans for the implementation of Artificial Intelligence hashtag#AI in their organisations.Here are some of the key…
Six Top Tips for the Easiest Way to Make Change Successful in Your Organisation
Change in an organisation is like trying to assemble IKEA furniture without the instructions – it’s possible, but unnecessarily painful. The biggest challenge? Most organisations struggle to see…
LINQ’s future development regarding carbon emissions
focuses on enhancing its capabilities to provide even more detailed and actionable insights, particularly in managing Scope 3 emissions and refining the platform’s features for broader carbon…
Take Control of Your Carbon Emissions with LINQ’s Carbon Insight
As businesses face increasing pressure to decarbonise and meet regulatory and market demands, the challenge of tracking and reducing carbon emissions has never been more pressing. But where do you…
Gaining Certainty in Organisational Change: Highlights from Our Webinar
We teamed up with one of our partners, Nova Systems New Zealand and Australia, to explore how businesses can achieve certainty and success in organisational change. The session, led by Neil, our…
The Right Data: A Crucial Ingredient for Successful Digital Transformation
Having the right data is the cornerstone of a successful digital transformation project. Without it, your transfortmation will be fraught with challenges, and you are likely to be amongst the 70%…
New release imminent
For those of you who have been on the LINQ journey for a number of years, you will be pleased to hear, that a new chapter is about to begin! Your patience, innovation, belief and resilience will be…
Environmental Impact: How Digital Twins of the Organisation Contribute to Sustainable Business Practices
As organisations worldwide strive to reduce their carbon footprint and enhance their environmental stewardship, digital twins of the organisation (DTO) emerge as a pivotal technology in achieving…
The Role of the Digital Twin of the Organisation in Successful Digital Transformations
We all know how fast the business landscape changes and one area is accelerating that change and bringing huge benefits to businesses. What is it? It’s the Digital Twin of the Organisation (DTO)…
An introduction to Digital Twin of the Organisation Technology: What is it, how it can be used and why does it matter?
Digital Twin Technology and Digital Twin of the Organisation (DTO) – words that are becoming more commonplace business terminology, but what exactly is it? Simply put, it’s a virtual representation…
Why only 30% of Digital Transformation projects are successful…
Only 30% of digital transformation projects are successful! So why do the other 70% fail? Business transformation projects can be extremely challenging. The unfortunate reality is only 30% of…
Driving during lockdown and the connection to future business success
Today I had legitimate cause to drive into Wellington as I took my wife to her x-ray appointment – thankfully nothing too serious. As we drove through the exceptionally quiet streets, something…
Digital Twins enabling organisational transformation – a podcast
Neil recently had the opportunity to talk with Robert Smallwood from Information Governance World. Neil and Robert talked about how building the Digital Twin of the Organisation can help accelerate…
Do you capture the language of your business?
Is there a language of business? There are certainly languages for many aspects of business. We have an entire vocabulary for modelling business processes, another for building the narrative around…
Your information assets – the value-liability ledger
Your information assets are one of the most valuable assets your business has – second only to your people. Today, global accounting practises do not enable the value of those assets to be…
Understanding the opportunity for Robotic Process Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the buzz words of the moment. RPA is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of metaphorical software robots or…
Are you frustrated at the speed of decision making?
Are you frustrated at the speed of decision making in your organisation? Do you seem to go around and around and never get to the point of being able to say yes, or no? Decision paralysis costs…
Helping your decision makers say "Yes!"
We’ve all been in meetings with our decision makers, trying to get agreement that the change we want to implement is necessary, only to find some level of resistance? That resistance slows things…
Do you have a data resilience plan?
Data.gov website and services are now unavailable across the US due to the government shut-down. This is surely having a huge impact to many people inside organisations all around the world that…
How to monetize your information assets in seven steps
This post has been adapted from Gartner’s Applied Infonomics: Seven Steps to Monetize Available Information Assets paper – November 2018, which is available in full from Gartner here:…
Are you ready for ContinuousNext
ContinuousNext was the focus of the opening Plenary session at Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. As you’d expect from an organisation with the reputation of Gartner, they…
Spend money to make money
Over 2,000 years ago the great Roman playwright Plautus said “You must spend money to make money” Is this true? Is the only way to make it in this world to have money to start with? Of course it’s…
What is the cost of your business case?
Have you ever worked out how much it costs for you to develop the business case for change in your organisation? I have, and it’s not pretty! The thing is, I believe that the workflow used to…
Data Literacy is the new core competence of digital business
Digital society expects its citizens to “speak data"; to have data literacy. Unless data and analytics leaders treat information as the new second language of business, government and communities,…
A drive towards Data Literacy
Data Literacy…a term that is growing in acceptance through the data & information community and also becoming accepted as a core competency in the arena of enabling Digital Transformation. Don’t…
Is complexity killing your business?
The way your organisation goes about work – with complexity or with simplicity – is critical to its success. When the work becomes so intricate, this complexity can kill an organisation’s ability…
Employee Frustration and the Cost to Business
For as long as I can remember, a conversation has been going on about the cost of frustrated employees to a business. There are a few terms that are used; dis-engaged, absenteeism, presenteeism –…
Driving Change to Thrive in the Digital Economy Webinar Recording
This is the recording of the "Driving Change to Thrive in the Digital Future" webinar that took place on Wednesday 23rd May. In this session we discussed the drivers of Digital Transformation and…
Applied Infonomics Webinar Recording
Last week, we ran our first ever webinar on Applied Infonomics! We’ve tried before and failed to get anyone to register, so this time, having 26 people sign-up was a huge step forward for us.…
Cost Allocation – How much does Information Cost?
LINQ’s Cost Allocation is an important new capability which establishes an economic baseline for your information ecosystem. The Problem Imagine a factory where the Directors have no idea what the…
What’s your information maturity score?
We’re all beginning to realise that our information assets need to be more effectively managed so that the value our information adds to our business is recognised properly; that our maturity, in…
The Power of Information Flow Modelling – Part 4
In this series of blog posts, we are exploring how a greater understanding of your information assets can help drive business value through by enabling successful digital transformation. The…
The challenges of Information Intangibility
As IT Professionals, we often remind ourselves that "It should be all about the Information, not the Technology". Which is ironic, given that we’re inevitably ’IT professionals’ rather than…
The Power of Information Flow Modelling – Part 2
In Part 1 we talked about the role Information Flow Modelling (IFM) has to play in a business which is having to respond to the new pressures presented by the digital economy. We also put some…
The road to Digital Transformation is dark and full of terrors…
The road to digital transformation is dark and full of terrors…or so many would have you believe… It’s true that today’s organisations face more challenges than at any point in history, which will…
What if you could define and measure Business Transformation?
What does Business Transformation look like? Furthermore, what does the journey to a transformed business look like? How do you measure success; how do you know you ’got there’? These questions are…
Information Waste and Compliance Efficiency
Why does your organisation use Information? There are two reasons: supporting your core business and compliance. How do you differentiate between these different purposes? How do you measure not…
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but…
…a lack of curiosity in your business will kill you! Being curious is hard work. It often means that you are following trains of thought or activity which deviate from the accepted norm, especially…
Would eliminating Information Waste change your Business?
How much is Information Waste costing your business? It might help to first define Information Waste: Information waste: resources that are being applied to low-value activities These examples will…
LINQ – An Infonomics platform
We’ve been reading Doug Laney’s new book Infonomics. You should too! It’s available on Amazon here. Doug is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner’s Chief Data Officer practice. He…
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