Data Quality – The Hidden Enabler of Security and Compliance

Melissa AU Team | Data Quality | , , , ,

When guests check in to a 5-star hotel, they volunteer their personal information quite freely with the assurance that their data will be kept safe. After all, the customers are paying a premium for service. What happens when there’s a data breach – Marriott discovered the consequences when their systems were hacked and sensitive details of over 500 million customers were exposed. The hotel line was fined £18.4 million for failing to protect personal data.

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You Can’t Identify the Problem Without a Scorecard

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By Elliot King

If you can’t measure a process, you can’t improve upon it. That’s one of the ironclad quality initiatives. Edward Deming’s revolutionary insight was that if you can measure a process or outcome continually, you have created the opportunity to improve it continually.

 If you can’t measure a process, you can’t improve upon it. That’s one of the
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Context is Key to Measuring Data Quality

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By Elliot King

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but that is not the case when it comes to data quality or, at least, it is not the whole story. Data quality can be measured along several different dimensions. But in the final analysis data quality depends on the context within which the data is used.

 Perhaps the most obvious criteria by which to measure data quality is
accuracy.… Read More