From the Editor
Michelle C. Dy
Editor-in-Chief, IAIDQ Newsletter
michelle [dot] dy [AT] iaidq [dot] org
October 2009: IDQ Newsletter Vol 5 Issue 4
Dear fellow members:
I’m so pleased to be ending the year 2009 with a long list of articles from these contributors:
- Maureen Clarry continues her Power, Politics, and Partnership series by providing concrete strategies that Information Quality Leaders can adopt to counter systematic, dysfunctional patterns of organizational behaviour.
- Jack Olson believes that data capture processes are the single most important place where data can be made accurate or inaccurate. His article gives us a checklist that we can use to evaluate our own data capture processes.
- Graham Rhind highlights key findings from a Data Quality survey commissioned from MCC International Ltd by Capscan. Read the survey results to compare your own organization against survey respondents.
- Michael Scofield completes his two-part series on the Quality of Derived Data, and explains why attention must be given to the way data are summarized and manipulated if decision-makers are to receive meaningful information.
- Guy Tozer presents six key principles by which any organization's data architecture can be judged, and outlines the possible implications of each principle in a typical systems environment.
- Daragh O Brien, in Part 2 of his series on KPIs for Information Quality, describes practical considerations when deciding how best to summarize raw metrics data into information quality measures.
- Nonna Milmeister shares insights gleaned from the Data Quality Asia Pacific Conference. This article is a must-read for anyone who's still debating whether or not to attend the 2010 IDQ Conference in San Diego.
Don’t forget to visit the Association News section for information on our 2010 IDQ Conference Call for Proposals as well as recent News from Members.
Sincerely,
Michelle C. Dy
Editor-in-Chief, IAIDQ Newsletter