Author: Neil Calvert
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CEO
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 down, generates re-work, creates frustration and generally leaves everyone involved wondering what just happened, especially given the effort required to get to […]
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 rely on this data service to fuel their business outcomes. I wonder how many have a model of their data & information sources […]
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 […]
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 didn’t fail to create an environment of learning and possibilities. More than 2,500 CIOs from across Asia Pacific were in attendance along with almost 50 […]
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 […]
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 take my word for it! From Pranshant Pansare on LinkedIn – Make Data Literacy a Top Priority of Your Organization to Stay Alive From Gartner’s Valerie Logan – Fostering Data Literacy […]
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 to create value. An organisations success is to create a product of value at the lowest possible cost – one way of doing […]