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Alec Sharp

Alec Sharp

Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd.
Twitter: @alecsharp
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Alec Sharp has managed his consulting and education business, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd., for close to 30 years. Serving clients from Ireland to India, and Washington to Wellington, Alec has expertise in a rare combination of fields - data management, business analysis, business process improvement, and enterprise architecture. In addition to an active consulting business that keeps him up-to-date on real world issues, he conducts workshops and conference presentations globally, consistently receiving “excellent” ratings. Alec is the author of the completely rewritten second edition of Workflow Modeling which is widely used as a university text and is a best-seller in the field.

Posts by this Author

Shortcuts and Loops – Dealing With Transitivity in Data Models
Posted on May 20, 2011

How to win friends and influence people through your mastery of 4/5NF
Posted on March 18, 2011

Visual Normalization
Posted on January 28, 2011

Normalization for Mere Mortals
Posted on December 30, 2010

Top-Down How-To
Posted on October 20, 2010

Taking it from the Top
Posted on September 9, 2010

Recursion via Subtypes
Posted on August 25, 2010

Five Ways to Go Wrong with Generalization
Posted on June 23, 2010

Generalization In General
Posted on May 23, 2010

What’s in a name?
Posted on April 19, 2010

Wanted: Generalist. Deep Expertise Required.
Posted on March 23, 2010

Gorilla vs. Guerilla Modeling
Posted on February 19, 2010