I found this on http://www.motivatedphotos.com and it struck me that it is a wonderful metaphor for data integration, information quality, and data governance in many organisations where they are reacting to issues, sustaining silos, or viewing all of this as an IT issue rather than a business challenge, or trying to solve the challenge with …
I’ve been inspired by Jim Harris’ excellent post about how companies need to love their data this Valentines Day, where he uses 1980s song lyrics to argue his case. Â My personal view is that the 1980s, with a few exceptions, were a lost decade for music. So I trawled through my ipod and found this …
There has been a bit of a scandal in Ireland with the discovery that Temple St Children’s Hospital has been retaining blood samples from children indefinitely without the consent of parents. The story broke in the Sunday Times just after Christmas and has been picked up as a discussion point on sites such as Boards.ie. …
Two weeks ago I had the privilege of taking part in the IAIDQ’s Ask the Expert Webinar for World Quality Day (or as it will now be know, World Information Quality Day). The general format of the event was that a few of the IAIDQ Directors shared stories from their personal experiences or professional insights …
The Irish Times today reports that Bank of Ireland are again investigating incidents of double charging of customers who use LASER cards. I wrote about this last month (see the archives here), picking up on a post from Tuppenceworth.ie earlier in the summer. I won’t be writing anything more about the issue (at least not …
Mrs DoBlog and I are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a mini-DoBlog any day now. So we have spent some time flicking through baby name books seeking inspiration for a name other than DoBlog 2.0. In doing so I have been yet again reminded of the challenges faced by information quality professionals when trying to unpick …
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 …
This post is written by Colin Boylan, an independent market research professional based in Wicklow, Ireland with extensive experience in Market Research in pharma and other industries in the UK and Ireland. In this post, Colin explains how the quality of the population sample used in a market research study can have significant effects on …
84% fail. Do you remember that statistic from my previous post? In my earlier post on this topic I wrote about how issues of identity (name and address) can cause problems when attempting to consolidate data from multiple systems into one Single View of Master Data. I also ran through the frightening statistics relating to …
The title of this post is, co-incidentally, the title of a conference I’m organising in Dblin next week.. It is a timely topic given the contribution that poor quality information played in the sub-prime mortgage collapse in the US. While a degree of magical thinking is also to blame (“what, I can just say I’m …