Dear Information Professional,
As we begin the second half of this decade, I wish you an exciting and meaningful New Year. The challenges are great, but the rewards of implementing effective Information Management practices to eliminate the costs are process failure and "information scrap and rework" caused by defective information are great.
Introducing Graham Rhind, new Business Partner
Before beginning this article I wish to announce that Graham Rhind of GRC Database Information in The Netherlands and I have become business partners. Graham is the world's foremost expert on global name and address information. Working with Graham, Information Impact International can provide you effective information quality management methods and expert techniques for global information management to solve some of your most difficult information quality issues.
Graham has contributed an article in this edition of The Information Quality Newsletter, addressing techniques for designing quality into web data collection systems that can help you prevent errors and the painful costs of failure and "information scrap and rework." Please read it and visit his web site.
Information Quality in Communication
This year started with a tragic accident, compounded by "misinformation," that reinforces the fact that Information Quality is much more that just what is in our databases-it affects our everyday lives through all forms of communication, from written to oral.
My feature article addresses this problem with IQ principles for preventing communication problems.
Join the Information Quality Revolution
The International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) is embarking on its second year with a Strategic Planning retreat that will set its strategies for the next five years. Exciting things are happening as the association develops products that will usher in the "realized" Information Age. Don't miss out. Join the IQ Revolution-visit www.iaidq.org.
To a High IQ!
