From CW: Dirty Data Blights the Bottom Line

I stumbled over this article in ComputerWorld, and just saw the relevance to my post on the sexiness of Data Quality:
Data quality isn’t a glamorous topic, but Companies ignore it — especially for internal systems- at their financial peril.
I advice you to read the article since it includes a good case study, and some very [...]

Is Data Quality as Sexy as Intestinal Medicine?

This weekend I was to a dinner with the Queens Heart Surgeon.  We talked about the hierarchy of surgeons, where he is at the top, Brain Surgeons is at 2nd and Intestinal Surgeons are at the bottom.  He is at the top because he literally holds life and death in his hands, whereas Intestinal Surgeons just [...]