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26th Aug: Live Q&A with John Talburt discussing the Information Quality Program at UALR
9th Sep: Data Quality Career Coaching: Part 2 - Building Your Online Base
14th Sep: Technology Briefing: X88 Pandora
17th Sep: ISO 8000 Master Data Quality - Q&A with Project Leader Peter Benson
22nd Sep: Data Challenges in the Telecoms Sector, featuring Teresa Cottam of Telesperience
28th Sep: Solvency II - The Architecture Discussion
30th Sep: Organisational influences on data behaviours with guest Julian Schwarzenbach
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In this detailed article by Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies we learn one of the more overlooked disciplines that is pivotal to MDM success – change management.
Please note: If you are interested in learning how to implement some of the concepts explored in this article, Mike will be hosting his popular Enterprise Data Governance & Master Data Management seminar on the 22-24 September 2010 in London.
Data Governance | by Dylan Jones (Editor) 
This on-demand recording of our recent webcast features guest expert, Steve Sarsfield, author of The Data Governance Imperative.
We discussed a range of topics including organic governance approaches, challenges of defining data governance, industry adoption trends, policy enforcement vs legislature and much more.
Runtime: approximately 45 minutes
Post a Comment | tagged Steve Sarsfield | Share Article | Print Article | Posted on Fri, July 30, 2010 Karen Lopez (@Datachick) posted an interesting link to a data quality PR nightmare this week: Customers fume over 'outrageous' gas bills
This developing story should act as a stark warning to any services company in the social media age.
Bad news sparked by poor data quality travels faster and further than ever before.
A recent survey of LinkedIn profiles belonging to data quality practitioners has thrown up some interesting insights.
By focusing solely on what you do, instead of what the client gets, practitioners may be placing themselves at a disadvantage in the job market.
In short: are you focusing on your features or your benefits?
In this post we look at how public sector organisations can benefit from a shared license framework to get through the barrier of limited funding and constrained procurement.
Are you maximising shared opportunities in your organisation?
The “Data Quality Bootcamp” is a 4 part online course designed to help you maximise your career potential by delivering some practical exercises and techniques to help you build your personal brand, create an online base, promote your skills, create a high-value network and connect directly with organisations in need of your expertise.
Week 1 focused on helping attendees define their value and differentiate themselves from the rest of the crowd.
This post provides an on-demand video of that first live session.
There was an interesting comment regarding the percentage of valueless data in organisations that was posted out of the MIT IQ conference last week, picked up on Mark Goloboy’s blog post Five New Ideas From 2010 MIT Information Quality.
According to Mark, the figure quoted at the conference was 60-90% of data is valueless but is this a realistic value?
In this post I want to explore the impact of poor data quality on the new Summary Care Record database being implemented by the UK National Health Service.
In particular I want to discuss how poor data quality leads to a cycle of increasing mistrust and gradual data quality degradation.
DQ Techniques, Interview | by Dylan Jones (Editor) 
This episode featured data analytics gurus Guy Cuthbert and Ian Hall from Atheon Analytics. Following a presentation on the theory behind data visualisation, Guy and Ian provided an engaging, practical account of how they discover serious defects using advanced analytics techniques.
The episode closes with details of a practical tutorial and free trial software you can use to build your own experience in this discipline that has so many applications within the data quality process.
Data Governance, MDM, Survey | by Dylan Jones (Editor) The Information Difference is carrying out research into how Data Governance can link Master Data Management and Data Quality.
If you can spare about 10 minutes to complete the survey it will really help to extend industry knowledge in this area. Anyone who completes the survey will receive a free summary of the survey results and enter a draw to win a free vendor profile worth $495.
Complete the survey at this link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/304307/qijy6
The first episode of our Live Expert Q&A show was shared with Jill Wanless, of Export Development Canada.
Jill is author of the Data Quality From The Ground Up Blog and in this episode shares nearly an hour of practical advice, offering techniques on a wide variety of data quality and data governance topics.
In this post we look at a growing trend in organisations searching for data quality and data governance leaders who must possess near super-human powers to tackle every conceivable data issue across the organisation.
Are you expecting too much of your data quality leader?
Updated on Mon, June 28, 2010 by
Dylan Jones (Editor)
In this post we discuss how the increasingly common practice of working remotely may help to reduce the supply and demand problem between data quality practitioners and organisations, only for those who are willing to experiment and innovate.
Insurance companies in the European Union are readying themselves for the approaching Solvency II deadline which places heavy demands on data quality and data governance strategies.
To help our readers learn more about Solvency II, we spoke with resident expert panelist Stephen Mills, Business Analytics Lead for Insurance, UK at IBM Global Business Services.
In this post we present the different methods of selecting data quality projects.
The aim of this post is to open up a debate on whether project selection is a key skill currently lacking from the data quality profession.
In this post, expert panelist and active community member Julian Schwarzenbach of Data and Process Advantage publishes an excellent white paper covering his popular series on different data behaviours and how they can impact data quality.
Julian explores how the distinctive data behaviours operate, looking in particular at their positive and negative traits.
He then suggests ways for engaging with each data behaviour type to improve how data quality is managed.
Interview | by Dylan Jones (Editor) In this interview Stuart Brown discusses the challenges of launching a data quality program in the public healthcare sector.
Stuart talks about how he developed his data quality skills and the benefits he has found from blogging about data quality.
Stuart lives in Canberra, Australia and blogs at http://theroadtodataquality.blogspot.com/
Continuing our compliance theme on Data Quality Pro we are delighted to publish an excellent white paper from one of the leading practitioners in the field - Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies.
Many organisations are facing the reality of ever increasing compliance and regulatory controls but how can they create an "Enterprise Data Quality Firewall" to ensure that poor data quality does not negatively impact their compliance goals?
This 16 page white paper provides practical solutions to the many issues facing organisations seeking compliance.
The UK Financial Services Authority have recently implemented a new policy that affects many UK financial institutions. The policy relates to the implementation of a "Single Customer View" (SCV) requirement for certain organisations that fall within their guidelines.
In this post we provide details of how to download a new report released by Ken O'Connor on Data Quality Pro that provides practical advice for the many organisations that require compliance with the new UK FSA Single Customer View policy.
