Information quality / Richard Y. Wang ... [et al.], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wang, Richard Y.

Series:

Advances in management information systems ; v. 1.

Advances in management information systems ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management information systems.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N. Y. ; London, England : M. E. Sharpe, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Organizations today have access to vast stores of data that come in a wide variety of forms and may be stored in places ranging from file cabinets to databases, and from library shelves to the Internet. The enormous growth in the quantity of data, however, has brought with it growing problems with the quality of information, further complicated by the struggles many organizations are experiencing as they try to improve their systems for knowledge management and organizational memory. Failure to manage information properly, or inaccurate data, costs businesses billions of dollars each year. Thi

Contents:

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part I. Measuring Data Quality

2. Measuring Data Accuracy: A Framework and Review

3. Developing Measurement Scales for Data-Quality Dimensions

4. A Cyclic-Hierarchical Method for Database Data-Quality Evaluation and Improvement

5. Model-Based Data-Quality Evaluation: A Comparison of Internet Classifieds Operated by Newspapers and Non Newspaper Firms

Part II. Modeling and Developing Information Processes for Information Quality

6. Building Quality into Information Supply Chains: Robust Information Supply Chains

7. What's in Your Information Product Inventory?

8. IP-UML: A Methodology for Quality Improvement Based on Information Product Maps and Unified Modeling Language

Part III. Data- and Information-Quality Improvement: Case Studies

9. Introducing Data-Quality Management in Data Warehousing

10. Improving Government-to-Business Relationships Through Data Reconciliation and Process Reengineering

11. Understanding Interdependencies Between Information and Organizational Processes

Part IV. Organizational Issues in Information Quality

12. Exemplifying Business Opportunities for Improving Data Quality from Corporate Household Research

13. Criticality of Factors Affecting Data Quality of Accounting Information Systems: How Perceptions of Importance and Performance Can Differ

Part V. Education and Capability Building in Information Quality

14. Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Development to Support Managing Information as a Product

15. Redefining the Scope and Focus of Information-Quality Work: A General Systems Theory Perspective

Editors and Contributors

Series Editor Index.

Notes:

First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Information quality.

ISBN:

1-317-46798-1

1-138-67978-X

1-315-70348-3

1-317-46799-X

0-7656-2013-8

9781315703480

OCLC:

898771416