IDQ Conference 2006

Leading Change: Basic Toolkit for the Information Quality Professional

C. Lwanga YonkeC. Lwanga Yonke
Information Quality Manager
Aera Energy LLC
IAIDQ Charter Member


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

Effective change leadership is often the differentiator between successful information quality initiatives and less successful ones. This tutorial will provide helpful perspectives, frameworks and tools that information and data quality professionals can use to lead large or small change projects.

Drawing from lessons learned at the frontline, this interactive tutorial goes beyond classical change management concepts to include best practices from marketing and human psychology. Participants will learn:
- The peculiar characteristics of data that increase the complexity of information quality change projects
- The critical success factors of successful change
- How to understand and manage personal and organizational transitions
- The elements of successful change communication throughout the change lifecycle
Speaker Bio
C. Lwanga Yonke works as Information Quality Manager at Aera Energy LLC, where he specializes in all aspects of information quality. His previous positions include Manager of BI, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, and various petroleum engineering assignments. Lwanga earned an MBA from California State University and holds a bachelor of science in petroleum engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. An ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, he has conducted numerous seminars on TQM strategies and has authored and presented several technical and data quality papers. Lwanga is a founding member of IAIDQ and currently serves as an Advisor to the IAIDQ Board.
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