Data Professional Introspective: How to Tackle a Data Quality Strategy
Everyone talks about the importance of data quality, but no one does anything about it. Not anything much, that is. …
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Data Professional Introspective: Accelerating Enterprise Data Quality
My recent columns have focused on actionable initiatives that can both deliver business value, providing a tangible achievement, and raise…
Data Professional Introspective: Organizational Factors Impacting EDM
“Money won’t save you, no, no, no, no, no.” – Reggae artist Jimmy Cliff, 1974. In fact, money, insofar as…
Data Professional Introspective: Do This to Be the Toast of the Town
You are a data management professional, so we know you are a hero already. But if you’d like to be…
Improving Patient Data Quality, Part 2: What is Evaluated in the PDDQ Framework
This is part two of a two-part article by Melanie Mecca and Jim Halcomb of the CMMI Institute about the…
Improving Patient Data Quality, Part 1: Introduction to the PDDQ Framework
Patient demographic data quality issues are pervasive across the healthcare industry. A significant percentage of healthcare professionals report that duplicate…
Data Professional Introspective: Coming in From the Cold
The Enterprise Data Management Organization In working with both commercial companies and Federal and State agencies, I’ve found that many…
Data Professional Introspective: Be a Savvy and Confident Data Steward
At conferences and in working with many organizations, I’ve often met individuals engaged in data governance – executives, stewards, owners,…
Data Professional Introspective: Know Thy Enterprise Data
Data is an organization’s ‘prana’ (breath of life). For virtually all organizations, we can assert: Data has grown like an…
Data Professional Introspective: Tulip Fields and How to Tend Them
Since it’s spring, let’s imagine that we’re visiting the Netherlands and are gazing in delight at the stunning beauty of…