Hello everyone, This weeks podcast conversation is going to be delayed as I will be collecting some conversations from today’s Teradata User Group Meeting in Toronto. So I will publish this weeks conversation later this evening EST. Download cc_8_prequel.mp3 Thanks for your pati

As we all now know with all the hype about the new Apple Mac’s allowing users to run Windows operating system, there is some real heat out there. MIP has done a great job in covering the technical side of things and so I will not even weigh in here on this.  The part that f

Welcome to the 7th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It’s the first Tuesday of April, we all made it through April fools day.  Today I have with me Mark Dymond, Director of Application Services at IBM who is responsible for one of their largest C

Welcome to the 6th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome one of our Senior Consultants and an Advisory Board member Jim Hayward, former co-founder of Gellman Hayward and Partners, which is now a part of CGI.  Today in our discussion from th

Welcome to the 5th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome my business partner Graham Boundy, co-founder of Project X and the head of our Data Warhousing practice in regards to a method of getting the data into the hands of the user leveragin

One of my favorite anecdotes on working with change was always the "How do you Boil a Frog" example.  The theory goes that if you throw a frog into a boiling pot it will jump out, but if you put it in a cold pot and then heat it up it will fall asleep and then boil.&nbs

Welcome to the 4th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we will be talking with Howard Morton, Managing Partner of Boardwalk International Advisors (www.bia-inc).  In today’s conversation we will be talking about the following: Howard’s

This is the Third of Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we will be talking with Steve Schaefer where we will cover: Fundamentals from a vendor point of view Objectives Information and Business Process Outsourcing Outsourcing as a tool, not the obj

I had the chance this week to catch up someone from my former past who is an absolutely awesome consultant (in this case I mean, project manager/business analyst) who is now working for a bank. As we caught up on how things were, we ended up talking about the drivers for a large initi

This is the Second of Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we will be talking with Tim Matthews, Co-Founder and VP Marketing from Ipedo in regards to: Enterprise Information Integration – introduction and where it sits in the Enterprise Archit