Consulting

As an IT and management consultant, Barry has advised and guided business intelligence (BI) strategies and implementations in a wide range of business areas over the past fifteen years. Clients include major banks, insurance companies and retailers throughout Europe and the US. Barry's particular skills are in the initiation and oversight of major information- and knowledge-led projects that catalyse and require significant human and organisational change.

With the current emphasis on social computing, Barry is creating new methods and approaches to extend BI into true business insight. Based on a blend of new technology, and insight into management and human factors, these methods will provide sustained business value by extending and modernising existing BI infrastructure.

Barry has extensive experience in the market positioning and strategic architecture of IT tools especially in the areas data warehousing, business intelligence and social computing based on over ten years experience as a Distinguished Engineer in IBM. As an experienced writer and conference speaker, Barry is a strong evangelist for new technologies and their possible applications for IT companies needing a strong communicator of their value add.