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IRM UK Consultancy

Through our comprehensive network IRM UK has extensive contacts with leading independent IT consultants. Our carefully selected consultants have superior technical knowledge, consultancy skills and a wide range of practical business experience. They are some of the most influential technologists, methodologists and original thinkers in IT today. Details of our consultants can be found below. If you have consultancy requirements, please provide Jeremy.hall@irmuk.co.uk with a brief synopsis of your project and we will get the appropriate consultant to contact you.

John Zachman, Zachman International

John A. Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM's Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques.

Mr. Zachman retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organization dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.

Bill Inmon, Inmon Consulting Services

Bill Inmon - known as the father of the data warehouse - has written 47 books and over 1000 articles. Bill's books have been translated into 9 languages. Bill has a weekly newsletter with b-eye-network of over 55,000 recipients. Bill holds 8 software patents.

Larry English, Information Impact International

Larry English, President and Principal of Information Impact International, Inc, Brentwood, TN, is an internationally recognised speaker, teacher, consultant and author in information management. He specialises in analysing trends for effective implementation of IM and he is actively involved in all aspects of IM, including planning, organisation, modelling and methodology implementation.

Larry has provided advisory services and educational seminars widely across North America, Europe and Australia. He was Vice-President of an international consulting company and data administrator in a large publishing company, where he implemented an integrated approach to database application development.

Ronald Ross

Ronald G. Ross serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the "father of business rules." He is Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC and is the author of eight professional books. His newest are: Business Rule Concepts (2005), a 2nd edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook, and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley (2003).

Roger Burlton, Process Renewal Group

Roger T Burlton is the founder of Process Renewal Group and the author of 'Business Process Management: Profiting from Process'. He is considered an industry leader in the introduction of innovative approaches for organizational change. He is recognized internationally for his contributions in Business Process Management, Stakeholder Analysis, Strategic Architecture Alignment, Prototyping and people based Project Management Methodologies. He is regarded as a realistic practitioner, who delivers pragmatic solutions for his clients.

An exceptional speaker, he has chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Business and Information Management around the world, including the BPMG Tenth Annual Process Management Conference, Process and Knowledge Management Europe, the National BPR Conference, DCI's Knowledge Management Conferences, Software World, and The Executive Summit. To date, he has conducted over five hundred seminars and has presented to over twenty thousand professionals. His seminars have been translated for audiences around the globe.

Malcolm Chisholm

Dr. Malcolm Chisholm is an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of Reference and Master Data Management. As well as advancing conceptual understanding, he has developed innovative management techniques and practical linkages to metadata management and business rules management for RDM and MDM. Malcolm is the author of the book Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases. In his consulting practice he concentrates on practical solutions for RDM and MDM issues, and brings this perspective to his speaking engagements and publications.

Graeme Simsion

Graeme Simsion has over twenty five years experience as a consultant and CEO of a successful consultancy. After working as an internal consultant, managing a technical team, he founded Simsion Bowles and Associates in 1982. He built the consultancy to some seventy staff in three capital cities, selling to a US company in 1999, and then working as a business unit manager within that company for a further two years.

Since then he has continued to consult and to deliver education in Australia, North America and Europe, drawing on his experience to help consultancies and consulting teams to perform better. His one-day consulting skills workshop has regularly been voted "best presentation" at major conferences in the UK and the US, and he is the developer and presenter of the postgraduate course in Professional Consulting at the University of Melbourne.

Graeme's technical background includes business and information systems planning, business process design and data management. He is the author of two books on data modelling and holds postgraduate qualifications in both information systems and business administration and a popular presenter at industry and academic forums.

Steve Hoberman

Steve Hoberman is a world-recognized innovator and thought-leader in the field of data modelling. He has worked as a business intelligence and data management practitioner and trainer since 1990, and is a popular and frequent presenter at industry conferences, both nationally and internationally. Steve is a columnist and frequent contributor to industry publications, as well as the author of Data Modeler's Workbench and Data Modeling Made Simple. He is the founder of the Design Challenges group and inventor of the Data Model Scorecard™.

Rick van der Lans, R20/Consultancy

Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in Internet, XML, data warehousing, and application integration. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their Internet, client/server, and data warehouse architectures.

Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last twelve years, he has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented many keynote speeches at international events.

He is chairman of the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since 1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called Computable and DataNews. Additionally, he is advisor for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database Magazine.

His popular books, including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle', have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies. Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.

Suzanne Robertson

Suzanne Robertson is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley 2006) a book that provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that all the stakeholders can understand them. Her other requirements book, Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005) addresses how to use requirements as input to planning and management. She is also co-author of the Volere approach to requirements engineering.

She has more than 30 years experience in systems specification and building. Her courses on requirements, systems analysis, design and problem solving are well known for their innovative workshops and practical applicability. Current work includes research and consulting on finding and involving the right stakeholders, the building of requirements knowledge models and running audits for assessing requirements specifications. She is a principal and founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild and is founding editor of the Requirements column in IEEE Software magazine.

James Robertson

James Robertson is a consultant, teacher, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for products, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. James is a leading proponent of the principle of introducing creativity into the requirements process. His controversial article "Eureka: Why Analysts Should Invent Requirements" in IEEE Software has provoked heated discussion and has been widely quoted.

Before becoming a systems engineer, James trained as an architect and his experience in that profession provides inspiration for his work on innovation and creativity. He is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley 2006), Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005) and the Volere approach to requirements engineering. He is also a principal and founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a think tank known for its research into new systems engineering techniques.

Kathy Long, Process Renewal Group

Kathy Long is a member of the Process Renewal Group. She has over seventeen years of experience. She has spoken at several conferences around the world, including the BPM Conference, Enterprise Architecture Conference, the Business Rules Forum and the European BPM Conference. To date she has conducted over 500 seminars and has presented to over 10,000 professionals around the globe.

Chris Potts

Chris Potts has been called "the world's leading thinker on IT investments". He has 22 years experience in corporate, business and IT strategies, investment management, Enterprise Architecture and delivery. Chris is hailed as an expert in his field by CIO.com, is a member of the Strategic Planning Society and of Computer Weekly's Strategy Clinic panel. He is the author of the business novel 'fruITion: creating the ultimate corporate strategy for Information Technology'.

Eva Wohlén, IRM Sweden

Eva Wohlén has vast experience and accumulated knowledge in the analysis of organizations' enterprise architecture and development of better processes. Eva is a consultant and presenter for IRM Sweden.

Eric Quist. IRM Sweden

Eric Quist works as a solution architect, taking enterprise architectures and requirement specifications to solutions and implementation of SOA-projects in many different businesses, both in private companies and the public sector. Eric develops methods and acts as an instructor for IRM Sweden.

Michael Blackstaff

Michael Blackstaff is a leading teacher of finance to IT (and other non-financial) decision makers. His latest published book is 'Finance for IT Decision Makers, 2nd Edition'. His courses and books encapsulate in plain English his thirty years experience of the IT industry and its customers. He is a chartered accountant and a member of the British Computer Society.

Mike Ferguson, Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd

Mike Ferguson is the Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd. He is an analyst and consultant specialising in Enterprise Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portals and Business Integration. With over 25 years of experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles.

Peter Aiken, Institute for Data Research

Peter Aiken is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Data Research and an Associate Professor of Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked with many organisations to help them form data management strategies and evaluate the use of new technologies within the area of data engineering and its relationship to systems and business engineering. In 2001 he was awarded the DAMA International Achievement Award and he has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999. He is the author of Data Reverse Engineering and Clive Finkelstein's co-author of Building Corporate Portals Using XML (McGraw-Hill 1996/99). Mr. Aiken is the co-author of the book "XML in Data Management" published by Elsevier.

George Brooke

George Brooke brings a wealth of technical and managerial experience to his subject of IT Project Management. He frequently receives the highest awards for both content and presentation of his materials.

He provides training and consultancy to organisations on topics ranging from Project Management, Strategic Testing and Requirements Management, to XML, Distributed Systems, SAP, Oracle and Java technology.

George's background includes 10 years as a systems designer and 10 years running his own software company in Germany. Returning to the UK as General Manager for Siemens, he established a new R&D organisation where he was responsible for setting up and managing some 20 projects. Later as part of Siemens Nixdorf, he took over the management of Application Software development for clients such as Tesco, British Gas, PowerGen, Esso and other well-known names. He continues to monitor new technologies and management techniques and more recently has been responsible for the design and delivery of major graduate training programs in the banking industry. He is a member of BCS and IEEE and lives in Cambridge with his wife and nine computers.

David Pultorak, Pultorak & Associates

David Pultorak is founder and chief executive of Pultorak & Associates (www.pultorak.com), where he applies his 20 years of experience helping organizations get results from their IT service and process management efforts. Mr. Pultorak has contributed to IT service and process management frameworks, including ITIL and MOF. Mr. Pultorak holds a Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania in IT and Organizational Science, and is a founding member of the University's Center for Organizational Dynamics. He is lead author of the popular, "MOF: a Pocket Guide" (Van Haren 2003), which has been translated into six languages. His most recent book is, "IT People: Doing More with Less" (Authorhouse January 2006) with Harris Kern.

Len Silverston

Len Silverston is a data management consultant with over 23 years of experience in helping enterprises integrate data. He is the author of the best-selling "The Data Model Resource Book" series (Wiley, 2001, http://silverston.wiley.com),which describes over 230 integrated, reusable generic and industry-specific data models. Many of these "Universal Data Models" are now licensed worldwide by Microsoft and included in SQL Server Enterprise Edition. His most recent book, which provides universal data models by various types of industries is currently being translated into Chinese. He is an award-winning, international speaker and a popular writer for publications such as Data Management Review. He was nominated for the DAMA International Individual Achievement Award in both 2002 and 2003. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Data Models, www.universaldatamodels.com), provides consulting, training and software to jump-start data modeling and data warehouse design efforts while increasing design quality and facilitating data integration.