LINQ’s Cost Allocation is an important new capability which establishes an economic baseline for your information ecosystem. The Problem Imagine a factory where the Directors have no idea what the Cost of Goods Sold is. Imagine a shop where everything has a price – but the shop owner has no idea what the wholesale cost […]
How’s business transformation going for you? I’ll hazard a guess: not well! Statistically that’s likely a good guess because so few transformation initiatives deliver. Under 20% of organisations have achieved their digital potential. You’ve read this far, so I’m also going to guess that you want to find a better way. Why we Invented LINQ […]
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 […]
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” […]
Two years ago, this very month, our company – which was still called Spatial.IQ – moved out of our offices. Those offices (our garage) were in the Dominion Observatory at the top of the Cable Car in Wellington. Today, two years later, we are on the move again. The last two years, being looked after […]
Wellington software start-up LINQ and IT consultancy Equinox IT have joined forces in a consulting partnership to help New Zealand businesses successfully transform. Equinox IT will use the LINQ platform to help its New Zealand consulting clients model and manage the various ‘Information Supply Chains’ that operate across their organisations. LINQ CEO, Stew Darling, says the […]
Having spent the last 7 weeks immersed in the world of Information Supply Chains I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve been looking at IT challenges in the wrong way. I now find it incredible how easily the conversation about IT’s role in digital transformation seems to focus on the “technology” and not the “information”. […]
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 […]
Putting the Focus on Information April 12th, 2016 – Wellington, New Zealand LINQ, a breakthrough technology for understanding an organisation’s Information Supply Chains, is now available. LINQ allows organisations to map, track and visualise how data and information flow through its organisation in support of business outcomes. Value and costs can be associated to all […]