Well, it is not often you get an award from a client.  Well thanks to some hard work by Doug (one of our Senior Consultants) we/Doug received recognition on some work that was done. The Recognition – "Exemplifying Breakthrough Innovation" Well aint that a peach.&n

Welcome to the 51st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby.  We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event.  This is a recap of Part 2 of the Wednesday sessions along with

Welcome to the 50th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello again from Vegas – baby.  We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event.  This is a recap of Part 1 of the Wednesday sessions. There wer

Download 45_coffeecast_45_teradata_partners_2007_keynote_address.mp3 Welcome to the 45th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Hello from Vegas – baby.  It is the end of day one of the Teradata 2007 Partners event and we have decided to break up the week as individua

I had a recent experience at Walmart that pointed out how great it is to have good information on inventory.  I wanted a patio set and saw one in the store that I wanted but could not take it at the time.  The person helping me said they had two left and one was being sold a

I remember before I was exposed more to Business Intelligence lingo I would get very confused by peoples use of the term KPI – Key Performance Indicator. Since then I have been involved in multiple projects aimed at creating KPI’s or Scorecards and have been consistently b

At the Teradata User Group meeting in Toronto I attended a great session lead by Betty Knight of Teradata.  Before I jump in I had one great observation on this presentation – it was good and mixed tech and bus together nicely.  So here are my observations: As in previ

Welcome to the 42nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd.  I took a few minutes of space at a Starbucks along with Graham Boundy to chat about last weeks Teradata User Group meeting and a few other musings along the way. This was an impromptu meeting without any agenda, bu

Welcome to the 41st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd.  I have been talking with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP) about some capacity planning excercises and MIP has been sharing his experiences with me so we sat down over a java at Starbucks and pulled away from a Florenc

The book referred to above is a very challenging book and really makes you think about the motivation and character of the public corporation.  The key thing apparently is that the owners, shareholders, are not libel or responsible for the activity of the corporation.  The o