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October 9th, 2007 — data quality conference, conference, data quality, Good Tip
The last session that I wanted to write about was titled, “A Business Value-Driven Approach to Data Quality” and was presented by Richard Trapp from Avaya. For those of you don’t know of Avaya (I suspect most of you do, as you probably have one of their phones sitting right next to you), they were spun off from Lucent and are now a leading business communications technology provider. Richard started the DQ program at Avaya and went about doing it in a very unique way — every effort he makes is focused on the trackable dollar value it brings back to the business.
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October 5th, 2007 — data quality conference, conference, Data Governance Conference, Good Tip, Data Governance
Wednesday at the conference began the series of shorter sessions. The day kicked-off with the one-hour keynote from Elizabeth Kirscher, President of Morningstar’s Data Services Business. Her presentation, titled “When Data Quality Drives Revenue“, centered around the accomplishments of Morningstar in the data management field and the road that they took to get there. Elizabeth’s background was in sales, so when she began leading the Data Services Business she didn’t quite have the technical background that one would associate with that position. This just goes to show that many data issues reside on the business side, not in IT. In her tenure at Morningstar, where her team is seen as a profit center (lucky her!), she has gone through many regulation and standardizations as well as mergers and acquisitions. Listening to her stories about these business moves was very interesting.
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October 4th, 2007 — data quality conference, data quality
I attended an all day session by Danette McGilvray titled “Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information” at the IAIDQ Conference. The session provided a really nice framework that you can follow, step-by-step, to implement a strong Data Quality Program in your organization. Danette is the President and Principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc. a firm “specializing in data quality management to support key business processes around customer satisfaction, decision support, supply chain management, and operational excellence.” Throughout the presentation it became very obvious that Danette has “been there and done that” many times over. Her examples of successes and failures on projects she has worked on throughout her career really helped crystallize why her ten steps are effective.
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October 3rd, 2007 — data quality conference, conference, data quality, Project Management
On the first day at the Information and Data Quality Conference, I attended the session, “Using Data Profiling for Proactive Data Quality Improvement“. That session was for the first half of the day, so for the second half I attended the Len Silverston session titled “Power and Politics in Data Quality Improvement Efforts“. This was a great session that had very little to do with data theory and data management, and a lot to do with interoffice dynamics. The session opened up with the question, “What is the biggest problem in data quality today?” Many good answers were tossed out by the attendees, but I think the answer that Len submitted trumped them all… read on for the answer.
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September 29th, 2007 — data quality conference, data quality
This past week I attended the Information and Data Quality Conference at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. The conference material was great, and because data quality is an emerging discipline just as data governance is, there were many different approaches and methodologies to implementing data excellence in your organization. Last week I opened up the opportunity for you to steer my data quality conference experience by allowing you to email me with sessions that you’d like notes from… One person took me up on the offer and later this week I’ll provide you with my notes from the session he requested, “Managing Data Quality in an ERP Environment” by Danette McGilvray.
I’d like to start, though, with key takeaways from my half-day session (on the 1st day): “Using Data Profiling for Proactive Data Quality Improvement” by David Plotkin of Wells Fargo Bank. As you probably know by now, I maintain that a good data quality program is a key piece to making Data Governance successful (and vice-versa). This session included some great tips for starting and sustaining data quality. Read on for notes from the session…
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