IT Data for Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 7 May 2008 | 10:48 pm
Dealing with data is part and parcel of any operation. But how to treat the data in your hands is another question. That is the usual dilemma that CIOs and senior IT team leaders face.
What’s ironic even, is that CIOs and senior IT team leaders often find themselves handling a lot of data, yet they seldom treat these information as something that can help them optimize their organizations effectively. That is because they don’t have the tools that help them sift through and find the relevant data. This is where Six Sigma comes in.
Thus, in the recent Six Sigma in IT conference, this question was asked: “What should we be measuring for our IT organization?”
To know the answers, read IT Measures That Matter.
Source:
Information Week
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Filed under: Software/Technology, Data, Data Analysis, Six Sigma, IT, Data Quality, Metrics
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The SixSig Roundup
Posted by: meikah | 7 February 2008 | 9:11 pm
Here’s another serving of the SixSig roundup. Data is very important in Six Sigma, and so the focus of this roundup is data, data management, and data quality.
The ASQ blog needs your thoughts on sizing up the government: For those of us who are schooled in the methods and values of quality and organizational improvement (e.g., Deming, Kaizen, SPC, Lean Six Sigma, etc.), what would the process of assessing government agency missions look like? Are there any best practice examples around the world that our Government Division and other readers know about? What can the Government Division do in the days and weeks ahead, to think about the work of the next Administration, and offer the benefit of our knowledge and experience?
Informatica Data Quality Blog says that you can’t achieve customer data integration without data quality. CDI helps you to address data quality issues, such as accuracy, timeliness, and completeness.
Over at BNET, managers are encouraged to apply evidence-based management. People can make good decisions when armed with complete data.
Joyce Norris-Montanari of Dataflux asks “do you do data?” Doing Data includes any process, model, database, architecture, data stewardship issue, data governance issue, or metadata repositories that include data.
