In my last post I talked about the lack of innovation within most organisations and how a combination of our education system and organisational culture have created this ‘Kill the Chicken’ environment. Comfort is the enemy of innovation. Whatever other elements might come into play, why would you move from a status quo of low-risk […]
Information Technology is a strange beast. We struggle to define it, scope it, design it, implement it and operate it. We know that it’s capable of transforming our organisations yet all too often have to be content when it doesn’t. We put up with terrible systems which force staff to perform contortions to serve the […]
What on earth do Information Supply Chains have to do with horse meat lasagne? Many of you will recall the furore back in 2013 when there was a huge recall of frozen lasagne in the UK that contained up to 100% horse meat instead of the labelled beef. That was a failure of a food […]
In the last post, I explored the need for a strategy and roadmap to guide the migration from Google’s deprecated products. In this one, I’ll discuss a methodology which could be used to structure a spatial strategy. At Spatial.IQ this methodology is at the heart of our consultancy and is called LINQ. No matter how […]
The Google / Esri announcement has caused a lot of discussion at LINQ aided by really useful feedback from readers of the first blog post. As the biggest upheaval in the spatial community in a decade or more, it deserves some attention. In this post, I want to take a look at some of the […]
LINQ provides a consistent way to describe one of your most important assets; your information. We enable you to describe the efficiency and effectiveness of the information supply chains which fuel your decision making systems and gain new insights into how your business can do even more with what you have.
Our work on What’s My Spatial.IQ? led us to the notion of tracing the information flows that culminate in the map – think of this in terms of the spatial information supply chains that create these web maps. These information flows are interesting. They define Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in a way that emphasises the […]