In this series of blog posts, we are exploring how a greater understanding of your information assets can help drive business value through by enabling successful digital transformation. The challenge that exists in the marketplace was described in this blog post; it is a challenge which is growing daily as the pace of change and the curiosity […]
As IT Professionals, we often remind ourselves that “It should be all about the Information, not the Technology”. Which is ironic, given that we’re inevitably ‘IT professionals‘ rather than ‘Information Professionals’. But how do ‘Information Professionals’ cope with the challenges of Information Intangibility? The (in)Tangibility of Technology As an excuse, it’s been really challenging to maintain […]
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” […]
Information Flow matters to your business. If you don’t believe me, here’s a challenge. Ask these questions about your organisation: How does it use Information? How do decisions about Digitisation get made? What’s the most valuable Information Asset? Only a few organisations are in the information business. These information-centric entities sell information as their primary […]
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”. […]
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 […]