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3-Day Seminar

Information Quality Improvement:
Processes and Best Practices for Business Performance Excellence

Register On-line:
11-13 April 2011, London

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Click here for an in-house quote request or for further information regarding in-house training.

Overview
Poor information quality costs organizations10-20% of operating revenue in process failure and "information scrap and rework" in direct costs with missed opportunity costs often greater.

This seminar describes quality principles applied to business and systems processes to achieve effective business performance. It provides guidelines for implementing an effective IQ environment.

Learning Objectives

  • Define information quality and its three components
  • Describe categories of information quality tools and how to use them
  • Describe how to measure information definition and content quality
  • Describe how to measure costs of nonquality information
  • Describe how to reengineer and correct data and implement audits and control for data movement
  • Conduct an information quality process improvement initiative
  • Describe how to organize and manage an information quality environment

Seminar and Workshop Outline

     Defining Information Quality (IQ)

  • Quality and information quality
  • Customer satisfaction as business driver
  • Dispelling myths about IQ

     Applying Quality Principles to Information

  • The information product
  • Kaizen, TQM and business excellence principles
  • Identifying information "customers"
  • Customer "expectations" of their information product

     Information Quality Tools and Processes

  • Categories of IQ tools
  • TIQM® Quality System Overview
  • Architecture of IQ tools in the TIQM process

     Assessing Data Definition and Information Quality

  • Data definition quality characteristics
  • Three categories of data definition quality assessment
  • QFD: Designing quality in data models
  • Metrics for data definition quality

     Assessing Information Quality

  • Information quality characteristics
  • Applying statistical quality control (SQC) to information

     Measuring the Costs of Poor Quality Information and the ROI of Information Process

  • Calculating information costs
  • Calculating poor quality information cost
  • Calculating lifetime value as a measure of information value

     Improving Information Process Quality: Data Defect Prevention

  • The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle for information process improvement
  • Root cause analysis using cause and effect diagrams
  • From quality assurance to continuous quality

     Improving Information Product Quality: Data Reengineering & Correction (Cleansing)

  • Principles of data correction
  • Audits and Controls for ETL processes
  • Discovering "business rules" in legacy data

     Implementing and Sustaining an Information Quality Improvement Environment

  • Deming's fourteen points of quality applied to information
  • Organizing and facilitating culture change for information quality

Audience

  • Information Quality Personnel
  • Quality Management Personnel
  • Data Management & Warehouse Personnel
  • IT Management
  • Systems Analyst
  • Business Analyst
  • IT Consultant
  • Information Stewards
  • Internal and EDP Auditors
  • Business Personnel who require quality information

Special Features

  • Lecture with exercises and interchange to reinforce the concepts
  • Free copy of "IQ Applied: Best Practices for Improving Business Information, Processes, and Systems" book

Information Quality Applied

Speaker Biography

Larry English, Information Impact International

Larry English, President and Principal of Information Impact International, Inc, Brentwood, TN, is an internationally recognised speaker, teacher, consultant and author in information management. He specialises in analysing trends for effective implementation of IM and he is actively involved in all aspects of IM, including planning, organisation, modelling and methodology implementation.

Larry has provided advisory services and educational seminars widely across North America, Europe and Australia. He was Vice-President of an international consulting company and data administrator in a large publishing company, where he implemented an integrated approach to database application development.

Seminar Fee
£1,445 + VAT (£252.88) = £1,697.88

Hotel Venue and Accomodations
11-13 April 2011
Venue: TBA London

London Accommodation: IRM UK in association with JP Events Ltd has arranged special discounted rates at all venues and at other hotels nearby the venue. Please visit the JP Events website for further information.
E-mail: enquiries@jpeventsltd.com Tel +44 (0)84 5680 1138 Fax +44 (0)84 5680 1139.

In-House Training
If you require a quote for running this course in-house, please contact us with the following details:

  • Subject matter and/or speaker required
  • Estimated number of delegates
  • Location (town, country)
  • Number of days required (if different from the public course)
  • Preferred date

Please contact:
Jeanette Hall
E-mail: jeanette.hall@irmuk.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8866 8366
Fax: +44 (0)1923 828 770

Speaker: Larry English
Information Impact International
Larry English, Information Impact International


Endorsed by:
iaidq


Endorsed by:
DAMA International
DAMA INTERNATIONAL
  UK Chapter


Group Booking Discounts
If 5 delegates from the same organisation register at the same time for the same or various seminars, then the 5th delegate is free. We regret that this offer cannot be used in conjunction with the Series Discount.

Series Discounts
Attend more than one course in this series and you will be entitled to the following discounts:

  • 2nd course 10%
  • 3rd Course 15%
  • 4th Course 20%

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