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 […]
The road to digital transformation is dark and full of terrors…or so many would have you believe… It’s true that today’s organisations face more challenges than at any point in history, which will influence the approach to transformation. Understanding which are and are not important based on how they will disrupt the future is an […]
Why Business Transformation is Difficult What does Business Transformation look like? Furthermore, what does the journey to a transformed business look like? How do you measure success; how do you know you ‘got there’? These questions are fundamental yet incredibly challenging to answer in business terms. As a result, the journey to Business Transformation is […]
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: […]
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”. […]
On Monday 16th November, we launched our Private Release of LINQ to our Early Adopters. This group is made up of organisations that we have been talking to for many months, bringing them on the LINQ journey with us. Part of being an Early Adopter is getting direct access to the LINQ team in support […]
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 […]
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 […]