Having the right data is the cornerstone of a successful digital transformation project. Without it, your transfortmation will be fraught with challenges, and you are likely to be amongst the 70% whose digital transformations fail! In a 2022 McKinsey Global Survey of 2,190 companies, two-thirds reported they were merely ‘treading water,’ taking no decisive action, […]
We all know how fast the business landscape changes and one area is accelerating that change and bringing huge benefits to businesses. What is it? It’s the Digital Twin of the Organisation (DTO) and it’s revolutionising how companies approach digital transformation. Understanding the Digital Twin of the Organisation Traditionally associated with physical objects in industries […]
Digital Twin Technology and Digital Twin of the Organisation (DTO) – words that are becoming more commonplace business terminology, but what exactly is it? Simply put, it’s a virtual representation (think mirror image), of a system, process, physical thing or object, which uses simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help a business see the value […]
Only 30% of digital transformation projects are successful! So why do the other 70% fail? Business transformation projects can be extremely challenging. The unfortunate reality is only 30% of transformation projects are successful – and that’s not many! Especially when transformation projects are typically expensive and use huge amounts of resource and time. A 2018 […]
A Business Value Model is a representation of how your organisation enables value. Value for your teams, value for your customers, value for your shareholders. The ‘how you enable value’ is the important bit. A Business Value Model (BVM) should provide with enough knowledge to quantify and qualify the work that goes on in your […]
Today I had legitimate cause to drive into Wellington as I took my wife to her x-ray appointment – thankfully nothing too serious. As we drove through the exceptionally quiet streets, something became very apparent to me. The lockdown is highlighting people’s best and worst practises. Drivers sitting in the wrong lane, braking dramatically for […]
Having just held our latest LINQ Partner day, we are so grateful to have a growing team around LINQ delivering amazing outcomes to clients in New Zealand, Australia and the US. Thanks to Scott Kennedy Mark Simon Vicki Taylor Simon Lloyd-Evans Daniel Gray Justin Fail and Greg Rozen for spending the day with us. Also superb to have Geoff Bush down from Tauranga to share […]
Neil recently had the opportunity to talk with Robert Smallwood from Information Governance World. Neil and Robert talked about how building the Digital Twin of the Organisation can help accelerate business transformations including Digital and Sustainability. You can listen to the podcast here: If you’d like to get started on building your Digital Twin, you […]
Imagine that the only utensil you had ever used was a pair of chopsticks and someone served you soup. How long would you try to eat your soup using chopsticks before realising that they are perhaps not the ideal tool for the job? Sure, you could drink straight from the bowl; being careful not to […]
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 […]