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 […]
ContinuousNext was the focus of the opening Plenary session at Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. As you’d expect from an organisation with the reputation of Gartner, they didn’t fail to create an environment of learning and possibilities. More than 2,500 CIOs from across Asia Pacific were in attendance along with almost 50 […]
Digital society expects its citizens to “speak data”; to have data literacy. Unless data and analytics leaders treat information as the new second language of business, government and communities, they will not be able to deliver the competitive advantage and agility demanded by their enterprises – Valerie Logan, Gartner Research Director Do you know what […]
We’re all beginning to realise that our information assets need to be more effectively managed so that the value our information adds to our business is recognised properly; that our maturity, in terms of how we consider our information increases. With that recognition comes the opportunity to invest in the areas of the business which […]
In this series of blog posts, we are looking into the business enablers of what is a new way of seeing your business by modelling information flow. The challenge that exists in the marketplace was described in this blog post; it is a challenge which is growing daily as the pace of change and the […]
It’s time for a conversation about Information Flow Modelling and why it is so powerful in helping you to understand how your business works and what change you could initiate so that you continue to be successful in business in the years to come. In this blog post we discussed some of the new external […]
The road to digital transformation is dark and full of terrors…or so many would have you believe… It’s true that today’s organisations face more challenges than at any point in history, which will influence the approach to transformation. Understanding which are and are not important based on how they will disrupt the future is an […]
Why Business Transformation is Difficult What does Business Transformation look like? Furthermore, what does the journey to a transformed business look like? How do you measure success; how do you know you ‘got there’? These questions are fundamental yet incredibly challenging to answer in business terms. As a result, the journey to Business Transformation is […]