Had some great discussions yesterday with people, but one stood out from the morning.  In talking with a client and discussing the different views and ideas around innovation and the role of IT in the modern organization, he started talking about "Leadership Edge". 

Welcome to the 20th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  So this CoffeeCAST happens to coincide with Project X’s 1st Anniversary. So as you can imagine, I grabbed Graham, my co-Founder and we decided to sit down and share a view of our year in review.  W

In previous posts we have talked about readiness and I am sure it will always pop up. One my challenges is patience for client readiness as it seems so obvious to me.  I was reading Robert Schaffer’s book Rapid Results and was interested to see what he had to say when I rec

In our series on reference architecture from last week I now turn my attention to what I know of IBM‘s which is less than the first two.  At the Think Big conference Dr. Bill O’Connell, Distinguished Engineer, Business Intelligence CTO, IBM Corporation did a spotlight

In a further effort to get a complete view of the landscape, I looked for as well as requested from Oracle their view on reference architecture.  It appears that they do not have a public one, but don’t lose hope.  I found some information on the web, but found that it

In an effort to get a complete view of the landscape, I looked for as well as requested from Netezza their view on reference architecture. It appears that they do not have a public one, but don’t lose hope.  We will get a view from them to see what they have to say.

So the last two posts covered a quick intro and a great view on the Corporate Information Factory.  Today I want to open up for discussion Teradata’s Real-Time Enterprise Reference Architecture which is an article that Todd Walter wrote for Tech2Tech.  I have seen and

In a previous post I introduced Claudia Imhoff‘s Corporate Information Factory.  As I have been many conversations over the last little bit on this area I thought I would share three different views and then lastly a version I am working on.  I even enclose my crazy di

Welcome to the 16th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome Kim a Program Manager at a large Financial Services organization.  Kim came from the IT ranks and then moved onto the business side where whe is running a fairly significant program.  Toda

I would like to extrapolate on the idea of Reference Architecture as part of any strategic roadmap.  In a meeting today with some people on the business side, they were having real trouble understanding or being able to create incremental change on some of their larger business i