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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 the IT architecture disciplines, another for building data models, and another for considering finances. Do these translate well into an over-arching, easily understood language of […]
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 represented on the balance sheet, despite the fact that information clearly has a financial value. This is going to change – in […]
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 artificial intelligence (AI) workers. RPA is being used to automate manual tasks, where the manual task is “recorded” and a “bot” takes over […]
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 […]
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 money There’s a missed opportunity cost which is often hard to quantify. Is the way that you are […]
Welcome to LINQs first ever beta programme! We made the decision to release our new Compare Insight into beta following the positive reaction we had from the organisations we created the proof of concept for. Compare allows you to understand the difference between 2 sketches. You will have likely captured your current state – how […]
The second issue of Information Governance World’s digital magazine has just been released. The magazine focuses on all aspects of information governance including best practise, privacy, security, analytics and of course infonomics. I was privileged to be asked to contribute to this issue and you can find my article on Page 54 here. Of course […]
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 […]