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Community | by Dylan Jones (Editor) Welcome to our weekly round up of the recent community posts and discussions from around the web.
Community | by Dylan Jones (Editor) Another round up featuring the latest articles, blog posts and forum discussions across the data quality community.
Community | by Dylan Jones (Editor) In this new slot we take a brief look at some of the highlights across the data quality community in the past week.
If there was a useful feature I missed please contact us with details.
What are the data-level challenges and opportunities facing the modern telco?
Watch this recording of our recent webinar with telco expert analyst Teresa Cottam from research specialists Telesperience and discover:
Data Governance | by Dylan Jones (Editor) 
This on-demand recording of our recent webcast features guest expert, Steve Sarsfield, author of The Data Governance Imperative.
We discussed a range of topics including organic governance approaches, challenges of defining data governance, industry adoption trends, policy enforcement vs legislature and much more.
Runtime: approximately 45 minutes
Post a Comment | tagged Steve Sarsfield | Share Article | Print Article | Posted on Fri, July 30, 2010 The first episode of our Live Expert Q&A show was shared with Jill Wanless, of Export Development Canada.
Jill is author of the Data Quality From The Ground Up Blog and in this episode shares nearly an hour of practical advice, offering techniques on a wide variety of data quality and data governance topics.
Insurance companies in the European Union are readying themselves for the approaching Solvency II deadline which places heavy demands on data quality and data governance strategies.
To help our readers learn more about Solvency II, we spoke with resident expert panelist Stephen Mills, Business Analytics Lead for Insurance, UK at IBM Global Business Services.
Jill Wanless is one of the most popular and active members in the online data quality community. Her blog "Data Quality From The Ground Up" is an inspiring account of how she has helped deliver data quality and data governance initiatives with limited funding using innovative "guerilla tactics".
In this interview Jill shares some of her experiences and tips for getting a data quality program off the ground and moving in the right direction.
For some time I've felt that what Data Quality Pro was lacking is a regular magazine or journal that consolidates articles, commentary and insights around certain themes.
To take this concept forward we've today launched the new look "Data Quality Herald", a unique magazine focused squarely on the needs of the data quality community. Our old Herald was simply a regular members only journal, the new Herald is significantly richer both visually in content, plus it's available to all.
The magazine features sections on topics relating to career development, community engagement, emerging technologies, expert interviews, industry best practices and much more.
To make life easier (and to save a few trees) the magazine will only be available online.
You can read the latest edition below, or if you want to grab a PDF copy and discover exactly what is in the first edition simply visit this link:
http://www.dataqualitypro.com/herald/
In this interview, expert information quality practitioner, Kathy Hunter from Kynetika, provides practical advice on getting started in the profession, getting an information quality initiative off the ground and developing a successful career.
DQ Blog Roundup | by Dylan Jones (Editor) 2009 has witnessed a prolific rise in blogs relating to data quality, data governance and MDM matters. This round up highlights some of the "old battlers" who were there throughout the year and some of the "new recruits" who have joined the fray.
Thank you to everyone who got involved in 2009 and contributed their experiences, expertise and insights to make it a truly memorable year for our respective professions.
Survey | by Dylan Jones (Editor) If you're involved in the data quality profession you may well be setting out some personal or corporate data quality objectives for the year ahead.
How can we help you reach those goals?
The new year is almost upon us and it's a time to think of our data quality resolutions for 2010.
Perhaps you are looking to improve your data quality practices next year but are concerned about how to make those habits stick?
This article gives you a list of possible data quality habits to focus on and a simple methodology for making sure you and your team stick to them.
eLearningCurve have recently announced CIMP, a certification process for information management professionals.
To find out more about this scheme and how it may benefit data quality professionals we recently interviewed the Director of Education at eLearning Curve, Dave Wells.
Announcements | by Dylan Jones (Editor) 
Data Quality Pro is launching the first data quality conference to be delivered in an online format using a low-cost membership model.
DQ Directions 1 will launch in Q2 2010 and finally offer a global platform for delegates to learn, share and connect.
In this interview, change management and Lean expert Mark Eaton from Amnis explains the process of improvement and gives some practical advice for embedding long-term changes within the organisation.
Methodology | by Dylan Jones (Editor) "IQM-CMM: Information Quality Management Capability Maturity Model" by Saša Baškarada has recently been published by the German Association for Information and Data Quality.
Dr.Baškarada has an extensive background in the field of information and data quality so I recently caught up with him to find out more about his goals for the book and how he feels it will benefit organisations on their information quality journey.
DQ Blog Roundup | by Dylan Jones (Editor) Welcome to the November 2009 data quality blogger roundup.
A huge amount of activity this month in our regular feature looking at the latest blogging activity across the field of data quality.
Mary Gregory from specialist consultancy Playing Hamlet recently provided us with some excellent advice in the following article: The Importance of Change Management.
Several members contacted me to discuss various change management issues following that interview and Mary has very kindly agreed to respond to those questions in this follow-up interview.
In this feature Mary provides a checklist of questions to pose before launching a major initiative, advice for identifying an appropriate change management strategy, the reality of working on a change project and sage advice for aligning executive sponsors.
Last week we launched a new series of tutorials that provide a step-by-step guide for anyone wishing to learn basic through to advanced data profiling techniques.
The series includes workbooks, sample retail data and a fully featured data quality tool, DQ Analyzer, courtesy of Ataccama.
In this tutorial we provide practical techniques for mastering Completeness, Format and Primary Key profiling techniques.
