Sketch name length
We’ve changed the character limit for sketch names to 128 characters (just over 3x what it was before)
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but…
…a lack of curiosity in your business will kill you! Being curious is hard work. It often means that you are following trains of thought or activity which deviate from the accepted norm, especially within your business. There are 128 accepted human values in the world. Of these, only 11 drive curiosity. Of these, you […]
Would eliminating Information Waste change your Business?
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” […]
LINQ – An Infonomics platform
We’ve been reading Doug Laney’s new book Infonomics. You should too! It’s available on Amazon here. Doug is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner’s Chief Data Officer practice. He knows what he’s talking about when it comes to understanding the value of information. Doug lays down a challenge to organisations large and small: […]
Clear Action Frequencies and Durations
Once you had added frequency and duration to an Action node, we gave you no way of clearing that data, so we’ve added a “reset” to the action node’s frequency and duration with the addition of the ‘Clear’ button to the action duration calculator. This simplifies refactoring of existing information supply chains. You can now […]
Annual Hours / People Hours Distinction
With the ability to model ‘meetings’ in a LINQ sketch (many people connected to a single action), we have found that it is useful to distinguish between the annual hours of the action and the annual hours of the people involved. For example, a weekly meeting with four attendees may take one hour, the annual […]
Select All Nodes
If you have ever had trouble keeping track of nodes when following an upstream or downstream information flow – then do we have a new feature for you! In the navigator panel we have added a new “Select All” button that selects just the nodes visible in the navigator view. For example, in Downstream mode, […]
New Image Export and Print Improvements
We have added an option to export a sketch as a Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) image. This export type overcomes the size limits encountered with our PNG image export. You can now export any size sketch as a SVG image. SVG also has the additional benefit of being scale independent, allowing you to use the […]
New Excel Export
A new export option has been added to the canvas – “Full Export”. With this export, more advanced reporting from LINQ can be achieved with products such as Microsoft BI. The “Full Export” option produces an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) that contains unique identifiers for each node, edge and LINQset, along with: node-to-edge relationships, node-to-LINQset relationships, […]
We are looking for a new Team member
We are looking for a highly-organised, self-motivated team player to work closely with the CEO. You will provide a supporting role for the leadership team as well as the wider team. The role is extremely varied and offers opportunity to grow and develop within a fast-growing company. Responsibilities You will play an active part in LINQ’s […]