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How Bad Can it Be?The most common data quality question is, “We’re still making money, so how bad can it really be?” Consider the following scenario. You made the “mistake” of hiring good people. Rock stars, even. They’re smart people, and they want to make sure you keep making money. As processes break and bad reports … Leave a comment Tags:  data management, data quality, dirty data, EIM, information management Category: Information Management
Nope. Not a TV at all—instead, it was a black, semiautomatic gun. Imagine his surprise! …
How many business initiatives did you undertake last year? How many delivered on time, on target, and have increasing adoption? How many do you plan to undertake next year? Ask your CIO or program management office for these numbers—then have a discussion. If you’re normal, 40 percent of those projects will fail. Investing in the quality of the …
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Not true, as the infographic demonstrates. Your data can decay over time. Addresses and zip codes are always changing because of postal authorities. People move …
Points for you, if you can identify some lyrics or the artist in my song choices—or if you can think of a better one! Stayin’ AliveThey’re already … Leave a comment Tags: data quality, EIM, information governance, information management Category: Information Management T Data governance organizations Metrics and score card initiatives A program vs. a project mindset toward information problems—after all, you can’t just clean your house once and expect to never do it again However, the strong EIM management at each of company is leaving. The question is, what happens …
An unpopular but effective technique is to let the train go off the track. Yes. Brace yourself and take the hit. You can see the information train barreling down the track, and part of the track is missing. Every instinct you have tells you to stop the train. You can’t stop the train. … Research agency Vanson Bourne surveyed 500 IT Managers and CIOs in the UK and One-third of large companies in the UK have lost customers/new business due to missing data Eighty-eight percent of businesses saw data as a strategic asset to their business Fifty-two percent of respondents said their biggest frustration was the complexity around managing multiple data sources We can make a few assumptions from these results: If businesses knew their data was missing or incomplete, they would do something about it If businesses …
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Intrinsically, you know that you need good data. But how far do you need to go? What are the real costs incurred if you DON’T have clean data?
USA reported an interesting story about a 
If you’re one of the many who isn’t yet tracking metrics and constantly reporting business value achieved through your efforts, you can use the Gartner whitepaper statistic below to help you quantify results.
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Zoominfo.com recently published a 
In talking to customers last week, they again reinforced that information governance success is still on the horizon for each of them—and these were companies that had a dedicated data governance organization in place for years! Here are some of the key barriers still affecting most customers I talk to, and some general guidance on how to overcome them.
his week I talked to two different customers who were going through organizational pain. In both cases, they had strong management who understood the value of truly treating information as an enterprise asset and, as a result, had the following in place:
Nearly always, the first question I get asked in regard to information governance is “how do I sell the value? I know things are bad, but no one is willing to put money or resources behind the effort.”
