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IAIDQ Sponsors Information Quality Conference

Published: October 11, 2005

The IAIDQ offers information and resources for solving the perplexing problems of poor quality information.

The International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ), in cooperation with Information Impact International, recently sponsored the 17th annual Information Quality Conference. The conference took place in Houston, Texas. The IAIDQ, chartered in January 2004, is the premier professional organization for data and information quality management professionals. The IAIDQ offers information and data quality practitioners’ resources for solving the perplexing problems of poor quality information in their organizations. 

After a year of administrative and foundational work, the IAIDQ has begun to formulate and develop various important resource areas for members. This primarily means documenting and/or developing a concrete body of knowledge around a core set of information quality principles. “One of the advantages Information Quality practitioners have is that the principles and techniques of information quality have already been proven in the sound quality management systems,” says Larry English, Co-Founder of the IAIDQ and Co-Chair of this work team. Such Quality Systems are founded on principles of quality management that work effectively. Prominent examples of this include: W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points and System of Profound Knowledge; Joseph Juran’s trilogy of Quality Planning, Control and Improvement; Armand Feigenbaum’s Total Quality Control; Masaaki Imai’s Kaizen; Philip Crosby’s Quality is Free and Malcolm Baldrige’s Quality Award Criteria for Business Performance Excellence and Six Sigma. “Any sound Information Quality system will be based on the proven principles that created an economic revolution in manufacturing,” English affirms. The work’s outcome will become the basis for identifying the counterpart principle techniques for information quality.

Expert members of the association gathered to begin researching these important core principles. The “Quality Principles” team will research various proven quality methodologies as a model. According to Lisa Flint, co-chair of this work team, “It is the IAIDQ’s vision that this core set of principles will be the guidelines to lead organizations in the future, as they address the challenges of nonquality information.” 

2006 looks like a promising year for information quality. The IAIDQ will be on the leading edge to provide the best possible guidance and support for sound data and information quality practices. 

If you are interested in joining in the Quality Principles work team, please contact either Lisa Flint or Larry English. Lisa Flint can be contacted at (919) 531-9283 or via e-mail at Lisa.Flint@sas.com. Larry English can be contacted at (615) 837-1211 or via e-mail at Larry.English@infoimpact.com. You must be a member of IAIDQ to join. For additional information and an application, please visit http://www.iaidq.org/.