There are a number of analogies for issues associated with data quality. Ken O’Connor’s recent blog post likened data quality to the quality of water in a river. I also sometimes use an analogy based on the quality of water
Would you allow this…?
One of the greatest factors which can lead to the degradation of quality of information relates to the behavior of users, data administrators and external parties. I have referred to this in a previous post “There is no such thing
Making performance improvement real
Last week I visited Haldex Concentric in Birmingham who manufacture pumps for commercial vehicle engines. They are shortlisted for an award at the Midlands Excellence Awards, to be announced this week. They have instigated a continuous improvement approach to improving
Business Efficiency Tools – Stronger in combination?
As a believer in taking the medicine I prescribe I’m always on the look out for opportunities to develop and improve my skills. Hence I recently attended an event at Midlands Excellence where Julian Beaney led a very informative morning discussing
Why application based user groups do not work
Many larger organisation with enterprise wide applications set up user groups to promote application usage, to help resolve system issues and to help plan future enhancements to the application. These groups, in my experience, do not deliver suitable business benefits
Enigma and Bletchley Park – Lessons for today
I went to a lecture by Dr. Mark Baldwin yesterday on the Enigma encryption machine used by Germany during World War 2 and the work of Bletchley Park in breaking the Enigma codes. The successful breaking of the codes has
Brainstorming – effective tool, or comfort blanket?
I found this article about the reasons why brainstorms fail the other day and it got me thinking. Parker Smith raises some very vaild points about this tool. When I trained to be a facilitator, brainstorming is about the first
Approaches to data quality issues from suppliers
I recently came across two examples of how to handle poor quality supplier data, one good and one bad, in the same business unit of a large organisation. The organisation concerned is reliant on contractors supplying accurate data for the