Archive for February, 2009

Question of the Week #2

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Question of the Week #1 - Responses

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OK, the polls closed on Friday and the responses to the Question of the week for last week are:
80% agree that the development of the CIQP certification will lead to increased/new opportunities for trainers in the IQ/DQ field.
20% disagree.
My personal view is that there is clear potential for new opportunities, whether through refocusing teaching materials [...]

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Information/Data Quality: An Emerging Profession – Finally!

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This is an exciting time for me. After working in information quality for the past 15 years, I am starting to see tangible evidence that information/data quality is finally establishing itself as a real profession, with a rigorous academic foundation, a wide body of knowledge, distinctive best practices nurtured and honed by practitioners in [...]

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Question of the week #1

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Each week we’ll be asking the community a question about some aspect of the CIQP initiative to encourage some discussion and debate so we can better understand the expectations people might have about the whole CIQP effort.
This week, our question is:

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Let us know what you think!

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Christian Walenta interviewed on Data Quality Pro

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Earlier this month, Christian Walenta was interviewed about certification by Dylan Jones of DataQualityPro.com. Dylan is an IAIDQ member and we were very glad of the opportunity to talk a little bit about the certification program.
Key points from the interview are:

Certification is a very important step in the evolution of the IDQ profession.
The IAIDQ community [...]

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The value of CIQP - a 3rd party view

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I wrote a post over on my personal blog recently about the development of CIQP. Jim Harris posted this comment on that post:
I agree that this type of certification is greatly needed in our industry. Information Quality must be embraced as the business/technical symbiosis that it truly is. I believe that the IAIDQ CIQP program [...]

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CIQP - why it matters to me.

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First off, I want to be up front and clear about my motivations for writing this post. Yes, I’m the Publicity Director for the IAIDQ. Yes, I’m one of the fund raising team working on the efforts to develop the CIQP certification. Neither of those facts is a secret, and indeed I am proud of [...]

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