Most business leaders understand their data needs at work, but they often fail to prioritize their governance strategies, reported the Harvard Business Review.
For utility providers, keeping information secure and data quality high at has become both hugely important and very challenging as data volumes have exploded in recent years.
Email marketing is not merely a blast of information to as many email addresses as possible. A carefully maintained list of names is a better tool than a large sprawl of possible contacts.
All practices deal with no-shows on a regular basis. Physicians Practice reports they may happen as often as three times per day in a facility that usually schedules 30 appointments.
The National Health Services (NHS) recently released a report showing the data for its Pay by Results program is improving, but still requires some work.
There is already a very important piece of IT legislation in place - the Data Quality Act, which regulates all information released by the government's executive branch.
Performing market research requires a variety of customer information and will be less effective if that data is not high quality and relevant to the question at hand.