SIPOC (Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs and Customers) is a change management tool which has been around since the late 1980s. Often presented at the outset of process improvement efforts it is used: To give people who are unfamiliar with a process a high-level overview To reacquaint people whose familiarity with a process has faded or […]
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 business transformations including Digital and Sustainability. You can listen to the podcast here: If you’d like to get started on building your Digital Twin, you […]
Imagine that the only utensil you had ever used was a pair of chopsticks and someone served you soup. How long would you try to eat your soup using chopsticks before realising that they are perhaps not the ideal tool for the job? Sure, you could drink straight from the bowl; being careful not to […]
It is estimated that 92% of the world’s data was created in the past 2 years. Without the ability to sort through that data in a streamlined manner it can quickly turn from a benefit to a burden. So how can we effectively manage all that data? Let’s start with two words:#InformationGovernance Again for those […]
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: https://www.gartner.com/document/3893864 The “monetization of information” matters Although awareness of information’s potential to deliver more than operational and analytical benefits is increasing, data & analytics leaders rarely have the […]
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 not always the case but what you do need are strategies, people and tools that […]
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 generate the case for change today is broken; It takes too long, Inapproriate tools are used, Prioritisation is […]
We were recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Information Innovation – an honour indeed, which you can read more about here www.linq.it/cool-vendor It’s not only Gartner who thinks we are cool – we think we’re cool too and this is why… Cool Fact #1 – The LINQ Language The LINQ Language sits at the […]
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, they will not be able to deliver the competitive advantage and agility demanded by their enterprises – Valerie Logan, Gartner Research Director Do you know what […]
Are you one of the minorty organisations who has access to a Data Engineer? No longer constrained to the Big Data organisations, this key role is critical in moving organisations through the digital divide into the digital economy. 47% of data and analytics leaders have identified difficulty in deploying their experimentation data pipelines and workloads […]