LINQ Ltd. is poised for a transformational year in 2016 by introducing technology that will change how organizations view, manage and leverage their enterprise IT systems. LINQ helps break down the barriers between business, executive and IT leadership to drive analytic-based decision making and IT change prioritisation. We are looking to partner with consultancies and […]
“We seem to have developed the perfect system for burning money and achieving nothing” – Anonymous. This is a true story. An organisation with a large number of traditional IT systems wanted to assess the opportunity to use new Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to advance new initiatives. SaaS was the way to go; […]
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 […]
In this post, I want to return to the topic of the Internet of Things and look at how thinking in terms of information supply chains can help to identify opportunities. The first thing to think about is how the Internet of Things might enable business transformation. We see three main transformation dimensions; infrastructure, societal and enterprise. […]
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 […]