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From the Bookstore:
The Data Governance Imperative
Steve Sarsfield
Executing Data Quality Projects
Danette McGilvray
Tom Redman
Arkady Maydanchik
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Are you focusing your data quality efforts around the capabilities of your chosen data quality software or the actual needs of your organisation?
The following article explores the common ailment of "data quality product myopia" and provides some practical advice for curing the condition.
DQ Techniques, Modelling | by Dylan Jones (Founder) In this guest post William Sharp of The Data Quality Chronicle provides some practical advice for leveraging data modelling at the outset of a data quality activity.
Are you looking for support and sponsorship to get your data quality initiative off the ground?
This post provides some practical tips and advice for transforming data quality dimensions into engaging, customer-focused benefits.
In this interview, expert information quality practitioner, Kathy Hunter from Kynetika, provides practical advice on getting started in the profession, getting an information quality initiative off the ground and developing a successful career.
This is a guest post by regular contributor Arkady Maydanchik from the eLearningCurve.
Arkady writes on the importance of monitoring data quality along the information chain and in particular the many data integration junction points in an effort to ensure quality for our ever increasing demand for data.
How to structure a data quality team is a common question for organisations moving up the maturity scale.
As you move from data quality denial, through to fire-fighting and eventually onto a governed strategy you will continuously face the problem of how to shape and scale your data quality resources.
The simplest way I've found of demonstrating this is to apply the concept of an "internal data quality business"
With so many books, articles and case studies available on the subject of data quality it is easy to to "cookie-cut" past strategies or frameworks and adopt them as your own.
In this article, I want to explain why that is not necessarily the best approach and what you can do to create the perfect strategy for attaining your data quality goals.
In this post we learn about the secretive world of the data quality change agent and the critical role they play in helping organisations deliver on their data quality aspirations.
DQ Blog Roundup | by Dylan Jones (Founder) 2009 has witnessed a prolific rise in blogs relating to data quality, data governance and MDM matters. This round up highlights some of the "old battlers" who were there throughout the year and some of the "new recruits" who have joined the fray.
Thank you to everyone who got involved in 2009 and contributed their experiences, expertise and insights to make it a truly memorable year for our respective professions.
Survey | by Dylan Jones (Founder) If you're involved in the data quality profession you may well be setting out some personal or corporate data quality objectives for the year ahead.
How can we help you reach those goals?
The new year is almost upon us and it's a time to think of our data quality resolutions for 2010.
Perhaps you are looking to improve your data quality practices next year but are concerned about how to make those habits stick?
This article gives you a list of possible data quality habits to focus on and a simple methodology for making sure you and your team stick to them.
eLearningCurve have recently announced CIMP, a certification process for information management professionals.
To find out more about this scheme and how it may benefit data quality professionals we recently interviewed the Director of Education at eLearning Curve, Dave Wells.
Announcements | by Dylan Jones (Founder) 
Data Quality Pro is launching the first data quality conference to be delivered in an online format using a low-cost membership model.
DQ Directions 1 will launch in Q2 2010 and finally offer a global platform for delegates to learn, share and connect.
In this interview, change management and Lean expert Mark Eaton from Amnis explains the process of improvement and gives some practical advice for embedding long-term changes within the organisation.
Methodology | by Dylan Jones (Founder) "IQM-CMM: Information Quality Management Capability Maturity Model" by Saša Baškarada has recently been published by the German Association for Information and Data Quality.
Dr.Baškarada has an extensive background in the field of information and data quality so I recently caught up with him to find out more about his goals for the book and how he feels it will benefit organisations on their information quality journey.
DQ Techniques | by Dylan Jones (Founder) This guest post by Ed Wrazen of Harte Hanks Trillium Software discusses the importance of creating highly focused data quality metrics to help demonstrate the value of data quality management.
DQ Blog Roundup | by Dylan Jones (Founder) Welcome to the November 2009 data quality blogger roundup.
A huge amount of activity this month in our regular feature looking at the latest blogging activity across the field of data quality.
Mary Gregory from specialist consultancy Playing Hamlet recently provided us with some excellent advice in the following article: The Importance of Change Management.
Several members contacted me to discuss various change management issues following that interview and Mary has very kindly agreed to respond to those questions in this follow-up interview.
In this feature Mary provides a checklist of questions to pose before launching a major initiative, advice for identifying an appropriate change management strategy, the reality of working on a change project and sage advice for aligning executive sponsors.
As part of a series focusing on the latest innovations in data quality technology, we recently interviewed the CTO of X88 Software, Tony Rodriguez.
The X88 team are based in the UK and provide software that focuses on three main areas of data management functionality: data profiling/discovery, data integration and data governance.
If you are looking to promote the wider adoption of data quality throughout your organisation these simple, low-cost, web-based applications might just help you and your team communicate, coordinate and collaborate far more effectively.
