Executing Data Quality Projects, 2nd Edition

Chapter 3: Key Concepts

Abstract

This chapter introduces fundamental ideas, the understanding of which, will aid data quality work and use of the Ten Steps Process. Information, like financial and human resources, must be properly managed throughout its life cycle to get the full use and benefit from it, so the information life cycle is discussed with the acronym POSMAD as an easy way to remember the six phases of the information life cycle: Plan, Obtain, Store and Share, Maintain, Apply, and Dispose. POSMAD plus several additional concepts are summarized in the Framework for Information Quality (FIQ), which provides an at-a-glance view of the components necessary to have high quality information. Other concepts central to understanding ...