Gordon Hamilton, Author at LightsOnData Practical resources, online courses, free articles and videos for data management, data governance, data quality, and business intelligence Thu, 04 Jul 2019 02:21:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.lightsondata.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LOD-logo-favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gordon Hamilton, Author at LightsOnData 32 32 142004744 How much does poor data quality cost your organization? https://www.lightsondata.com/how-much-does-poor-data-quality-cost-your-organization/ https://www.lightsondata.com/how-much-does-poor-data-quality-cost-your-organization/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:30:41 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=982 In the 6 weeks of my course, Data Quality Improvement at BCIT, I try to impart to them an understanding of how to ‘discover’ the instances of poor data quality in the data sets they are responsible for so that they can begin to help their team to ‘monetize’ the effects of that poor data […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/how-much-does-poor-data-quality-cost-your-organization/feed/ 2 982 Do executives underestimate the costs of poor data quality? https://www.lightsondata.com/do-executives-underestimate-the-costs-of-poor-data-quality/ https://www.lightsondata.com/do-executives-underestimate-the-costs-of-poor-data-quality/#respond Wed, 22 May 2019 14:22:06 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=971 In the first evening of my 6-week course on Data Quality Improvement I try to communicate the high cost of poor data quality (PDQ) to my students. Their eyes are usually starting to close while I cover the course administrative details as for most of them it has already been a hard week of working […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/do-executives-underestimate-the-costs-of-poor-data-quality/feed/ 0 971 Deming’s advice to busy executives: “Reduce variation” https://www.lightsondata.com/why-focus-reduce-variation/ https://www.lightsondata.com/why-focus-reduce-variation/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:00:43 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=800 One of my favourite quality stories is when, just as W. Edwards Deming was about to begin his 4-day seminar on improving quality at a large enterprise, one of the executives scheduled to take the course came up to Deming and said that he was so busy that week that he could not possibly spend […]

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