sheeeeeeeessssshhhhh! I’m just winding down from the last few days of excitement around the ICT Expo Information Quality Master Class. Larry English was over to do a Master Class on Information Quality. It went very well, and I think Larry enjoyed his visit to Dublin. Everyone seemed to get a lot out of what was …
Simon has thrown down a bit of a challenge…Â can I show why Information Scrap and Rework isn’t good enough because it seems like a sensible starting point… First off… let me provide a reference that should educate and delight (at least some of you) that explains what this Information Quality yoke is all about… …
Damien Blake written a good piece on IrishElection.com regarding his view on how to address the Electoral Register. Much of what he says has merit as a short term solution. He suggests that we scrap the register (no problem there) and rework it from scratch (again, no problem there) rather than limp on with a defective …
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The literati over at Digital Rights Ireland have a nice posting on their blog about the issues surrounding the use of PPS numbers and the overwhelming need for clarity of governance in their use to avoid ‘scope creep’. Here is the link to that post… http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/04/20/pps-numbers-and-cradle-to-grave-tracking/ Defined processes that address identified root causes, operating in the …
I have just come across Dick Roche’s website (www.dickroche.com). It’s not bad as politico sites go. I was particularly interested in his post re: the Electoral Register issues. To an extent it is more telling in what it lacks than what it contains. 1)Â Â Â Â Â “The use of Census Enumerators or other temporary personnel to support …
Vote loss scandal as 90%Â names are ‘wrong’Â (requires registration with www.unison.ie) OK, I am taking this headline with a small pinch of salt, not having had any visibility of the methodology used, sample size taken etc. There are lies, damn lies and statistics after all. 52.5% of cats surveyed said that they knew that ;-). Also …
I caught some of The Week in Politics last night. The video stream of the discussion can be found here (requires RealPlayer). What interested me was Noel Ahern, Junior Minister for the Environment (and sibling of our Prime Minister) seeking to distract attention from the electoral register fiasco by implying (please note that he didn’t actually say that …
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/28042006/344/fallout-slur.html In the snippet above, Irish Minister for the Environment Dick Roche ( see Electoral Register posts below) suggests that the portrayal in a TV drama about the impact of an incident at Sellafield on the east coast of Ireland was “bizarre” because it suggested that there would be riots on the streets of Dublin. …
I have pondered the electoral roll situation for the last few days. I believe I have come up with a suggestion for the Government that a) is feasible (at least based on my wet finger estimates of what is involved) b) doesn’t break any laws (as far as I can see) c) might actually work …
In the rush to adopt new technologies and new ways of working, particularly When an organisation embarks on a change to systems and processes it is often very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of enthusiasm for the new technology and the promised benefits of new ways of working. Nearly 2 years ago …