Recently there has been a swarm of articles talking about a new digital era; that of digital transformation. I’m sure you will have seen many of these already, but in case you’ve missed them, here are links to the best articles on the subject released in the last 2 weeks: Smart CMOs And CDOs Take […]
2015 was a big year for LINQ Ltd. We made some big decisions the most important one being the transition from a Services company to a Product company. That required a number of changes. This pivot was going to require capital which led to a lengthy search for investment. Concurrent to this we used what […]
LINQ Ltd. is poised for a transformational year in 2016 by introducing technology that will change how organizations view, manage and leverage their enterprise IT systems. LINQ helps break down the barriers between business, executive and IT leadership to drive analytic-based decision making and IT change prioritisation. We are looking to partner with consultancies and […]
On Monday 16th November, we launched our Private Release of LINQ to our Early Adopters. This group is made up of organisations that we have been talking to for many months, bringing them on the LINQ journey with us. Part of being an Early Adopter is getting direct access to the LINQ team in support […]
Back in March 2014 we had an idea. In the last 18 months we have worked hard on that idea which became our LINQ methodology, this resulted in us building a LINQ proof of concept to use with our customers. In July this year we accelerated our grand plan to move from a service company to […]
Today’s the big ‘Go / No-Go’ day for LINQ launch on Monday. We get to play Mission Control and fingers crossed it’s going to go like this: DevOps? Go! Dev Lead? Go! Product Manager? Go! QA Manager? Go! Support Manager? Go! Ops? Go! Comms? Go! It’s going to be a tense but fun day. It […]
It’s been a while since our last post. We’ve been busy getting LINQ to base camp; the private release of the product to our Early Adopters. That happens early next week and marks an exciting milestone on our journey. It has been almost one year since we developed our first LINQ Proof-of-Concept, so seeing it develop […]
“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; […]
Kaizen – Good Change Kaizen means ‘Good Change’ in Japanese (Kai = Change; Zen = Good) and has come to mean the practice of continuous improvement within an organisation. Kaizen originated in Japan post second-World War and came to international attention through its application in Japanese car manufacturing in the 1980s and has subsequently been […]
If innovation happens at all within an organisation, it is frequently a fluke or part of a skunkworks project. Commentators like Steve Blank suggest that while Skunkworks projects epitomise innovation by exception; to survive, organisations need innovation by design. In my previous posts (‘Kill the Chicken’ and ‘Kill the Chicken 2’ ) I spent some time […]