Pick the right customer with your data? In the March 2014 issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR), Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, writes that organizations need to identify their primary customer type, and focus their business delivery there. With the right subscription you can read the […]
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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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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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