Information Quality Trainwrecks.com

I have a focus on data quality at the moment and during some Internet research to support the business case for Data Quality Management (DQM), more on which coming soon, I came across this interesting blog IQTrainwrecks.com which in its own words;

"will provide a forum where Information Quality issues that make it into the media world wide can be logged, collated and discussed by members of the IAIDQ and the general public."

There are some very nice/horrible (depending on the way you look at it) examples of the business, and all too often the human, impact of Information Quality IQ issues. Always there is a significant cost for fixing the issue, which increases significantly the longer the issue is not addressed and an associated impact on the resources that need to reassigned. The second issue is the reason why data quality is such a killer for productivity.

The Oil and Gas upstream industry suffers from all the same effects in exactly the same way as all other industries, and it is clear that the majority of the industry is suffering from a significant IQ tax on productivity. How I plan to discuss in my next post.