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A game changer – Ferguson v British Gas

Back in April I wrote an article for the IAIDQ’s Quarterly Member Newsletter picking up on my niche theme, Common Law liability for poor quality information – in other words, the likelihood that poor quality information and poor quality information management practices will result in your organisation (or you personally) being sued. I’ve written and …

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The Risk of Poor Information Quality #nama

I thought it timely to add an Information Quality perspective to the debate and discussion on NAMA. So, for tweeters the hashtag is #NAMAInfoQuality. The title of this post (less the Hashtag) is, co-incidentally, the title of a set of paired conferences I’m helping to organise in Dublin and Cardiff in a little over a …

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IAIDQ Festival del IDQ Bloggers – Episode #2

Right – I’m opening with an apology. This should have gone out hours ago but it’s a Bank Holiday in Ireland, the sun is (uncharacteristically) shining so I took off to the beach with my wife and lost track of time… but better late than never. As some of you may know, I’m a member …

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Certified Information Quality Professional

Recent shenanigans around the world have highlighted the importance of good quality information. Over at idqcert.iaidq.org I’ve written a mid-sized post explaining why I am a passionate supporter of the IAIDQ’s Certified Information Quality Practitioner certification. Basically, there is a need for people who are managing information quality challenges to have a clear benchmark that …

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Information Quality Train Drivers

The IAIDQ is working to develop an industry standard certification/accreditation programme for Information/Data Quality Professionals (similar to the PMI for Project Managers). This is a valuable and significant initiative that will (hopefully) lead to a reduction in the types of issues we see over at IQTrainwrecks.com. The IAIDQ has set up a blog over at …

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An IQ Trainwreck…

From Don Carlson, one of my IAIDQ cronies in the US comes this YouTube vid from Informatica (a data quality software tool vendor) that sums up a lot of why Information Quality matters. Of course, I could get snooty and ask what gave them the idea to juxtapose Information Quality and Trainwrecks…. gosh, I’d swear …

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Cripes, the blog has been name-checked by my publisher…

TwentyMajor isn’t the only blogger in the pay of a publisher (I’m conveniently ignoring Grandad and the others as Irish bloggers are too darned fond of publishing these days. If you want to know who all the Irish bloggers with publishers are then Damien Mulley probably has a list)! I recently wrote an industry report …

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The evolution of Information Quality

I was googling today (or doing some googlage) for blogs that deal with Information and Data Quality topics. Needless to say yours truly did appear reasonably highly the search results. One post that I came across that really made me think a bit was this one from Andrew Brooks, currently a Senior Consultant with Cap …

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Conferences and me for the end of 2007…

Conference season is upon us in the Information Quality Community… At the end of September I’m off to Las Vegas to deliver a presentation at the IAIDQ’s North American conference the IDQ 2007 Conference. At the end of October I’m off to sunny London for the IRMUK Data Management and Information Quality Conferences. This will …

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