Month: August 2011

It’s Data and Contracts all the Way Down!

The Tallaght Hospital story is a salutatory tale of what can go wrong when engaging third parties to perform any service for your organisation. Left to their own devices and absent any control or governance framework that can verify that what is to be done has been done (in its entirety) and has been done …

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Turd Polishing

In the course of a twitter conversation with Jim Harris I used the phrase “turd polishing” to describe what happens when organisations try to implement check-box based data governance or Compliance programmes, or invest in business intelligence or analytics strategies without fixing the data which under pins those strategies addressing the organisational cultural and structural …

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Information Quality Change – the Doctor Who effect

I’m a big science fiction fan. I make no apologies about this fact. One of my favourite science fiction characters is The Doctor, the lead character in the BBC’s iconic series of the same name. In a genre that often falls for the easy charms of technology to drive a story, The Doctor (a 930 …

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