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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement
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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement

by Laura Sebastian-Coleman
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
13h 56m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 13

Directives for Data Quality Strategy

“In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”

—Jack Welch, Winning (2005)

Purpose

This chapter presents a set of 12 directives for establishing an organization’s data quality strategy and describes how to assess organizational readiness for such a strategy.

Thought leaders in the product quality movement recognized that the manufacture of quality products depends on many factors, including cultural and environmental ones. They introduced some of the key tools and methods for assessing and maintaining quality—the control chart, the Plan-Do-Study-Act approach, the Pareto diagram, and the Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram. More important than ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780123970336