A Business Value Model is a representation of how your organisation enables value. Value for your teams, value for your customers, value for your shareholders. The ‘how you enable value’ is the important bit. A Business Value Model (BVM) should provide with enough knowledge to quantify and qualify the work that goes on in your […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
The Brown Paper session is a common way for many people to contribute to the future strategy of their business. It is intended to examine a process that exists, document it to an appropriate level of detail and allow everyone to see the Big Picture providing the momentum for improvement.
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 […]
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 […]
LINQ Ltd. is poised for a transformational year in 2016 by introducing technology that will change how organizations view, manage and leverage their enterprise IT systems. LINQ helps break down the barriers between business, executive and IT leadership to drive analytic-based decision making and IT change prioritisation. We are looking to partner with consultancies and […]
“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; […]