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. […]
The Information Flow Modelling requirement for meeting GDPR, Article 30 – Records of Processing Activities, is an opportunity to fully understand how the data and information your business captures, stores, processes and uses, impacts your ability to deliver your business outcomes. If you get this right, you will be well on the way to generating […]
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)
…a lack of curiosity in your business will kill you! Being curious is hard work. It often means that you are following trains of thought or activity which deviate from the accepted norm, especially within your business. There are 128 accepted human values in the world. Of these, only 11 drive curiosity. Of these, you […]
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: […]
Once you had added frequency and duration to an Action node, we gave you no way of clearing that data, so we’ve added a “reset” to the action node’s frequency and duration with the addition of the ‘Clear’ button to the action duration calculator. This simplifies refactoring of existing information supply chains. You can now […]
With the ability to model ‘meetings’ in a LINQ sketch (many people connected to a single action), we have found that it is useful to distinguish between the annual hours of the action and the annual hours of the people involved. For example, a weekly meeting with four attendees may take one hour, the annual […]
If you have ever had trouble keeping track of nodes when following an upstream or downstream information flow – then do we have a new feature for you! In the navigator panel we have added a new “Select All” button that selects just the nodes visible in the navigator view. For example, in Downstream mode, […]