Tag Archives: GIS

Standardizing Your Address Quality

In my recent series of posts, I have been noodling on the differences between the concept of an “address,” which implies delivery, and “location,” which provides a much broader view of geographic points in space that have relevance to business or operational activities. In my last post, we looked at the characteristics of each of [...]

Wherever You Go…

This morning I was chatting with a colleague from one of the independent media channels with which I am affiliated, and we were discussing different methods of presenting content about data quality, business intelligence, and analytics. As an aside, I commented to her that I recently bought a new mobile phone that had an attached [...]

Convincing the CFO – A How-To guide for compelling business cases

Last week I wrote about a telephone company (Avaya) that achieved a 2,000% ROI through their Data Quality COE.  They achieved this payback by focusing on the income side of the business; that is, driving revenue growth and reducing operational costs by improving the quality of integrated customer and business data. But is it possible [...]