Have you Prepared your Data Quality Baseline? Has your organization planned a data quality initiative for 2014? If so, have you prepared your 2013 data quality baseline? Data quality initiatives are great if they produce measurable results. How do you measure the results of a data quality initiative? By preparing a data quality baseline before […]
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Information Confidence or Data Credibility? Data Credibility or Information Confidence, take your pick. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that Thomas C. Redman, Ph.D. has written a timely article on data credibility, now available in the December 2013 Harvard Business Review (HBR). If you have an online subscription, you can read it here. Also have
Who is watching the Practical Data Quality Metrics Dashboard? Practical data quality metrics are just the ones you would think of with minimal effort. However, the real question isn’t which metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) you should measure. Instead, it is whether you are measuring any metrics at all, and then letting your senior
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Your organization’s bad data is a social disease easily passed to your business partners and stakeholders With 200 completed responses in our “Poor Data Quality – Negative Business Outcomes” survey, run in conjunction with The Robert Frances Group, the IBM InfoGovernance Community, and Chaordix, it is safe to say that bad data is a social
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Did Business and IT Executives see the causes of poor data quality the same way? Our survey investigating the causes of poor data quality leading to negative business outcomes has been in flight for four weeks now. You can read about our first survey insights here, and the survey launch here. I’m running this survey
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Customer-Related Data Quality Pain in Early Survey Results We have an early yet strong indication of customer-related data quality issues across the full size range of organizations responding to our Poor Data Quality Survey. While there are many other areas of inquiry within our survey, I’ve selected customer data quality for this review because of its
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Now, be part of the solution instead of the poor data quality problem! Take our Poor Data Quality Survey at the InfoGov Community site. If you are a member of the InfoGov Community, logging in will trigger the survey. If you are not yet a member, visit the site, join, and take the survey. There
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When you have data quality problems, you might make better decisions by guessing. A cartoon on page 50 of the July-August 2013 Harvard Business Review (HBR)depicts one business guy telling another “We cut our marketing budget in half by just guessing.” Have data quality problems let you to a similar decision-making approach? Let’s have a
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Are poor business outcomes linked to poor data quality? If so, how do you ask the questions that deliver useful insights? At least one data-wise enterprise architect believes that some poor business outcomes are linked to poor data quality. Our recent interview with this practitioner, who shall go nameless, revealed support for our thesis, and
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Rome and our “Poor Data Quality” survey weren’t built in a day. In my last blog post about poor data quality, I noted that in recent days, little had been published about poor data quality. In fact, a small experiment with Google AdWords indicated that “Poor Data Quality” and related terms had Low Value. Here
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