IDQ Conference 2006

Information Quality Improvement - Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information

Danette McGilvrayDanette McGilvray
President
Granite Falls Consulting, Inc.
IAIDQ Charter Member


Tuesday 8:30am - 5:00pm
Full Day Tutorial
Level: Introductory

Are you responsible for information quality in your company? Simply put, information quality is providing the right set of accurate information, at the right time and place, to the right people. However, ensuring quality information is far from simple. Join this session to learn about a practical approach to improving the quality of information critical to running your business, satisfying customers, and achieving company goals. You’ll learn how these topics apply to your situation and leave with realistic methods for improving information quality.

Key topics include:
- Ten steps to quality data and trusted information
- The Information Quality Framework
- Dimensions of data quality
- The value of quality information
- Real-life application of the methodology

Speaker Bio
Danette McGilvray is President and Principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in information quality management. Projects include enterprise data stewardship and governance and information quality initiatives in support of data integration, data warehousing strategies, and large-scale ERP data migrations for Fortune 200 organizations.

An accomplished program manager and facilitator, she is a respected expert on data profiling, metrics, data stewardship, and tool acquisition and implementation. Danette is an invited speaker at conferences throughout the US and Europe. She is a member of DMReview.com’s Ask the Expert panel and is co-facilitator of the IAIDQ Book Club. She has been profiled in PC Week and HP Measure Magazine and was an invited delegate to the People's Republic of China to discuss roles and opportunities for women in the computer field.

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