Most good consulting companies marry a balance of people, process and technology to create a practice that meets and sometimes exceeds a client need.  This is a lovely motherhood statement.  But it forgets that the word consult means the bare

I remember reading that Cisco had been told to take a forced holiday/vacation where all the employees were told to take the time off and turn off cell phones and blackberrys and computers (not sure about the iphones).  There was a great article abou

March is a time of reflection for me as I build my personal balanced scorecard.  Outside of this process I rely upon others who coach and council me as well as the gleems of insight I often get as I go through a day.I took some time today to try and

I just read a very provocative blog about whether data quality is an  IT issue and the author has a good point.  See http://www.dataqualitypro.com/data-quality-forum/post/667593 Of course data quality is a business issue but that does not mean

My Dad sent me a youtube video that a distant cousin of mine from Barrie with the same name Steve Hayward, of course I am Stephen so we must be different :). The video is a commercial he did for...

I was pondering this week about balanced scorecards as a way to measure personal performance.  Michael when we worked together long ago took me through a balanced scorecard process to help me evaluate my performance for all the roles I take on.&#016

Yesterday was very frustrating for me.  Once the day ended last night I tried to understand why.  I realized part of it was I was dealing with bad data.Not bad data in the sense of EDW and BI, but the Metadata or context around some work we ar

One of the key ingredients in data governance is the concept of data stewardship.  Every project should be familiar with the concept and introduce the concept on all their projects very early.  I think it is a great way to get started on data

As most of you who follow our blog know, Project X's RapidBI Approach and Platform is linked and depends very much on Agile Development and Real Collaboration.The challenge with the word collaboration is that often it is just talk.  I have had t

How can I get people to enter their golf scores into the handicap system?  I just read Drive by Dan Pink and would like to apply the ideas of Motivation 3.0 to my problem.  I would like this to be the beginning of a discussion about motivation