As individuals, the privacy of the personal data we provide to organisations has never been a greater topic of discussion. As Kiwi organisations, our obligations under the current New Zealand Privacy Act are likely to change in the future in light of recent developments in the UK and Europe. These developments will also directly impact […]
We’d like to inform our users of a new display issue encountered when using LINQ on Internet Explorer version 11 (IE11) with Windows 10. A recent software update for IE11 has broken its support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) which LINQ uses to display our diagrams in the browser. SVG is a core part of […]
When was the last time your business celebrated an enterprise IT success? I don’t mean the ‘phew, thank goodness that project’s over’ survivor-style beer. I mean real celebration: ‘ wow, this is amazing, our customers are delighted and profitability is soaring’ It could be like this. If your IT experts and non-technical executives could communicate […]
It’s the sale of the year! Just imagine what you can do with a whole harbour for Christmas…
Yes, you heard us…we’re going to sell Wellington Harbour! We’ve decided that the view from our office is far too valuable just as our backdrop to work and that we should use it to generate useful funds. We have an auction on TradeMe and have started a fund raiser on GiveaLittle. The end date for those will […]
“We seem to have developed the perfect system for burning money and achieving nothing” – Anonymous. This is a true story. An organisation with a large number of traditional IT systems wanted to assess the opportunity to use new Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to advance new initiatives. SaaS was the way to go; […]
In my last post I talked about the lack of innovation within most organisations and how a combination of our education system and organisational culture have created this ‘Kill the Chicken’ environment. Comfort is the enemy of innovation. Whatever other elements might come into play, why would you move from a status quo of low-risk […]
You’ll often see organisations state ‘innovation’ as one of their core values. This is easy to spot because it is typically written in large letters in a bold font on a poster on the wall under the heading ‘Our Values’. Despite such value statements and indeed a sincere wish to promote innovation, most organisations, particularly […]