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Friday
19Mar2010

Get the New Data Quality Herald Magazine - Online

by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

For some time I've felt that what Data Quality Pro was lacking is a regular magazine or journal that consolidates articles, commentary and insights around certain themes.

To take this concept forward we've today launched the new look "Data Quality Herald", a unique magazine focused squarely on the needs of the data quality community. Our old Herald was simply a regular members only journal, the new Herald is significantly richer both visually in content, plus it's available to all.

The magazine features sections on topics relating to career development, community engagement, emerging technologies, expert interviews, industry best practices and much more.

To make life easier (and to save a few trees) the magazine will only be available online.

You can read the latest edition below, or if you want to grab a PDF copy and discover exactly what is in the first edition simply visit this link:

http://www.dataqualitypro.com/herald/

 

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Tuesday
16Mar2010

How Are You Creating a Pull for Data Quality in Your Organisation?

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image In this article I want to reach out to members and readers to learn how they are engaging the organisation to get involved with data quality.

What techniques are you adopting to "pull" employees in your direction or are you relying on a "push" approach instead?

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Thursday
11Mar2010

Does Your Project Suffer From Data Quality Product Myopia?

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Know Your Data!

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

data_model 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.

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Thursday
11Feb2010

How to Present Data Quality Dimensions For Maximum Impact

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

imageAre 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.

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Wednesday
10Feb2010

Expert Interview: Kathy Hunter of Kynetika

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

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.

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Friday
05Feb2010

Faster or Better: The Ultimate Choice

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.  

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Friday
29Jan2010

Building Your Internal Data Quality "Business"

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

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"

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Friday
29Jan2010

Are You "Cookie-Cutting" Your Data Quality Strategy?

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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Wednesday
20Jan2010

WANTED: Data Quality Change Agents

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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Monday
18Jan2010

Data Quality Blog Roundup - December 2009

in | by AuthorDylan 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. 

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Monday
11Jan2010

What are your data quality goals for 2010?

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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?

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Thursday
17Dec2009

8 Tips for Making Your Data Quality Resolutions Stick in 2010

in , , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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Thursday
17Dec2009

CIMP Certification Explored: Interview with Dave Wells of eLearningCurve

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

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.

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Monday
14Dec2009

DQ Directions Conference - Call For Presenters

in | by AuthorDylan 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. 

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Wednesday
09Dec2009

How to Make Data Quality Improvements Stick: Expert Interview With Mark Eaton

in , , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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Monday
07Dec2009

IQM-CMM: Information Quality Management Capability Maturity Model, interview with Author Sasa Baskarada

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image"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.

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Thursday
03Dec2009

Using Metrics to Assert a Business Case for Data Quality

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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Wednesday
02Dec2009

Data Quality Blog Roundup - November 2009 Edition

in | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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. 

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Monday
30Nov2009

Managing Change - Mary Gregory Revisited

in , | by AuthorDylan Jones (Founder)

image 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.

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