You can now see relationships between multiple nodes selected in the canvas. This is especially useful when viewing the relationships between disparate nodes of the same type. For more information on how this works please watch the video here.
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 Cost of Goods Sold is. Imagine a shop where everything has a price – but the shop owner has no idea what the wholesale cost […]
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 ‘Information Professionals’. But how do ‘Information Professionals’ cope with the challenges of Information Intangibility? The (in)Tangibility of Technology As an excuse, it’s been really challenging to maintain […]
How’s business transformation going for you? I’ll hazard a guess: not well! Statistically that’s likely a good guess because so few transformation initiatives deliver. Under 20% of organisations have achieved their digital potential. You’ve read this far, so I’m also going to guess that you want to find a better way. Why we Invented LINQ […]
Why Business Transformation is Difficult 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 fundamental yet incredibly challenging to answer in business terms. As a result, the journey to Business Transformation is […]
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 just compliance but compliance efficiency? First let’s quickly step back and set the Information Flow context for this discussion. LINQ is an Information Flow Modelling platform. […]
We have introduced a new Publish Sketch workflow and a slew of new privacy related control options when publishing a sketch. You can now choose to not publish specific data that may be deemed sensitive within your organisation and that you choose to make not visible to those that you are sharing the sketch with. […]
We’ve changed the character limit for sketch names to 128 characters (just over 3x what it was before)
What’s Information Waste? 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 help to illustrate that definition: Information Supply Chains that support no Business Outcome– “we process this information because that’s what we’ve always done” […]
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 knows what he’s talking about when it comes to understanding the value of information. Doug lays down a challenge to organisations large and small: […]