Meeting the Challenges of Data Quality Management

Introduction: The Challenges of Managing Data Quality

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin

Why Focus on Data Quality Management?

The purpose of this book is to help data management professionals meet the challenges of managing the quality of organizational data (data that represents the activities and stakeholders of the organization). This group includes data quality practitioners, data governance professionals, information technology (IT) teams, and others who help their organizations create and use data. It also extends to people higher up the organizational ladder (chief data officers, data strategists, analytics leaders) and in different parts of the organization (finance ...