Most businesses are trying to ensure that they have good data, or as they might say in Yorkshire “Reet good data” (hence the flat cap image). Before expending lots of time (and money) polishing and honing your data to perfection,
Data accident reporting
Those of you who are familiar with our blog will recall that we periodically compare how people treat data compared to real life situations. Two examples of this approach are “Would you allow this?” and “The Data Accident Investigation Board”.
Is data slowing down “the business”?
I just spotted an interesting article in Computer Weekly “High touch is just as important as high tech“. The article paints an objective picture about how human interactions have been changed by technology. From a data perspective there is an
Do your Data Quality Heroes know who they are?
If you are a data steward (or similar) tasked with improving the quality of your organisations data, then you will be reliant on many people to help improve your data quality who will often be outside your direct team. Above
Fighting data quality crocodiles
A colleague said recently – “We need to concentrate on fighting the crocodiles nearest the canoe”, which is both useful to remember and also one of the reasons why some organisations struggle to address their data quality problems effectively.
Does your organisation have a compliance culture?
In business situations a common frustration can be that staff do not follow the defined procedure, that data updates are not supplied correctly and that business change activities take more time and cost than expected. These symptoms can indicate a
“Information is the best disinfectant”
I went to an excellent talk recently by well known English politician Tony Benn as part of the Lichfield Literature Festival. One quotation he provided was the inspiration and title for this blog post “Information is the best disinfectant”. The
The most dangerous two words in the English language?
There are many words and phrases which some would consider dangerous. Arguably the two which are most dangerous are the words “I’ll just….” followed by another statement. Read on for some examples…
Sign your Employee Data Agreement…
Most organisations have an Acceptable Use Policy, IT Security Policy, Data Protection Guidelines etc. in order to provide a framework around specific areas of concern. These may also link to an organisations’ disciplinary policies. Should these organisations also have an
New species in the Data Zoo – Not Bovvered
Those of you who have been following our popular Data Zoo series of blog posts and White Paper may be interested to know that whilst completing our Data Behaviours training course using the Data Zoo concept, we have discovered a