SIPOC (Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs and Customers) is a change management tool which has been around since the late 1980s. Often presented at the outset of process improvement efforts it is used: To give people who are unfamiliar with a process a high-level overview To reacquaint people whose familiarity with a process has faded or […]
LINQ’s Cost Allocation is an important new capability which establishes an economic baseline for your information ecosystem. The Problem Imagine a factory where the Directors have no idea what the Cost of Goods Sold is. Imagine a shop where everything has a price – but the shop owner has no idea what the wholesale cost […]
How’s business transformation going for you? I’ll hazard a guess: not well! Statistically that’s likely a good guess because so few transformation initiatives deliver. Under 20% of organisations have achieved their digital potential. You’ve read this far, so I’m also going to guess that you want to find a better way. Why we Invented LINQ […]
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 […]
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” […]
I’ve always been an ideas guy. But an ideas guy who wants to see that idea deliver business value. Throughout my career, I’ve collected ideas from my colleagues and persuaded smart technical people to put them into action. I’ve learned a lot of lessons that you might find useful. I’m certainly finding them useful as […]
When was the last time your business celebrated an enterprise IT success? I don’t mean the ‘phew, thank goodness that project’s over’ survivor-style beer. I mean real celebration: ‘ wow, this is amazing, our customers are delighted and profitability is soaring’ It could be like this. If your IT experts and non-technical executives could communicate […]
2015 was a big year for LINQ Ltd. We made some big decisions the most important one being the transition from a Services company to a Product company. That required a number of changes. This pivot was going to require capital which led to a lengthy search for investment. Concurrent to this we used what […]
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 […]