Meeting the Challenges of Data Quality Management

Meeting the Challenges of Data Quality Management enables data management professionals to help their organizations get more value from data by addressing the five challenges of data quality management: the meaning challenge (recognizing how data represents reality), the process/quality challenge (creating high-quality data by design), the people challenge (building data literacy), the technical challenge (enabling organizational data to be accessed and used, as well as protected), and the accountability challenge (ensuring organizational leadership treats data an asset). Organizations that fail to meet these challenges get less value from their data than organizations that address them directly.

Key Features:

• Describes the importance of high-quality data to organizations wanting to leverage their data in todays digitally interconnected world

• Explores the five challenges in relation to organizational data, including "Big Data," and proposes approaches to meeting them

• Clarifies how to apply the core capabilities required for an effective data quality management program

• Provides Data Quality practitioners with ways to communicate consistently with stakeholders

"If you are concerned about poor-quality, untrustworthy data and its impact on your organization (and the world), then Laura Sebastian-Colemans latest book, Meeting the Challenges of Data Quality Management, is for you. Readers will appreciate her ability to think deeply about the problems, combine research with her years of experience, and come to well-thought-out conclusions. She clearly expresses the challenges and solutions in a way that speaks to those who create and manage data, as well as to those leaders who are promoting better use of data to help their organizations. Read it, use it, share it!" Danette McGilvray, President, Granite Falls Consulting, Clinton, UT, USA, and Author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information (2nd Edition)

"Laura Sebastian-Coleman recognizes that data is a representation of the activities of an organization and that to improve the business data quality is also to improve the organization, its people and technology as such. Those who might claim that a Data Governance program, or AI, or a better system, or coercive management, or other quick fixes will "straighten out our data" suffer from a lack of insight, insight that this book describes. This book is a must read for anyone attempting data quality improvement. Laura provides the fundamental and in-depth knowledge needed to accomplish changes that work and last; this is the improvement hikers comprehensible guide to the data galaxy." Hkan Edvinsson, Author, consultant, and founder of the Diplomatic Data Governance concept, Helsingborg, Sweden

"Dr. Sebastian-Colemans new book is a great sequel to her first book, Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement. Our Information Quality Graduate Program has been using MDQOI as a standard textbook for the programs Principles of Information Quality course since its publication in 2013. While the first book provides a very clear and effective guide for "how" to systematically measure data quality, her new book expands this perspective to include the broader context of "why" an organization should incorporate data quality management best practices into its strategic plan. It provides a clear roadmap for bringing together data, processes, technology, and people into systems that maximize the value of an organizations data assets. It also describes how data quality management practices must be adapted to meet the challenges of big data, data literacy, data governance, and data protection. I highly recommend this book for any organization trying to build and improve its data strategy, and as a textbook for data management, data science, and information science programs." John R. Talburt, PhD, IQCP, CDMP, Acxiom Chair of Information Quality, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Lead Consultant for Data Quality and Data Governance, Noetic Partners, Little Rock, AK, USA