Yes, you heard us…we’re going to sell Wellington Harbour! We’ve decided that the view from our office is far too valuable just as our backdrop to work and that we should use it to generate useful funds. We have an auction on TradeMe and have started a fund raiser on GiveaLittle. The end date for those will […]
In June 2016, Air New Zealand will open a new route; Auckland – Ho Chi Minh City. In the last year over 15,000 travellers left new Zealand for Vietnam and as LINQ Ltd accounted for 0.01% of those flights we like to think that this is Air New Zealand’s way of recognising the important relationship […]
Today’s the big ‘Go / No-Go’ day for LINQ launch on Monday. We get to play Mission Control and fingers crossed it’s going to go like this: DevOps? Go! Dev Lead? Go! Product Manager? Go! QA Manager? Go! Support Manager? Go! Ops? Go! Comms? Go! It’s going to be a tense but fun day. It […]
It’s been a while since our last post. We’ve been busy getting LINQ to base camp; the private release of the product to our Early Adopters. That happens early next week and marks an exciting milestone on our journey. It has been almost one year since we developed our first LINQ Proof-of-Concept, so seeing it develop […]
“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; […]
Kaizen – Good Change Kaizen means ‘Good Change’ in Japanese (Kai = Change; Zen = Good) and has come to mean the practice of continuous improvement within an organisation. Kaizen originated in Japan post second-World War and came to international attention through its application in Japanese car manufacturing in the 1980s and has subsequently been […]
Yesterday was one of the most significant days I have had in the past 3 years. It passed with the single click of my mouse button. No fireworks, no shouts of celebration; actually a little bit of an anti-climax as I reflect back. Yesterday Spatial.IQ Ltd. was put to rest and LINQ Ltd. was born. Spatial.IQ […]
If innovation happens at all within an organisation, it is frequently a fluke or part of a skunkworks project. Commentators like Steve Blank suggest that while Skunkworks projects epitomise innovation by exception; to survive, organisations need innovation by design. In my previous posts (‘Kill the Chicken’ and ‘Kill the Chicken 2’ ) I spent some time […]
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 […]