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My name is Jim Harris, I am the Blogger-in-Chief of OCDQ Blog, and an independent consultant, speaker, and freelance writer for hire.

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My name is Jim Harris, I am the Blogger-in-Chief here at Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ), which is an independent blog offering a vendor-neutral perspective on data quality and its related disciplines.

I am a recognized thought leader with 20 years of enterprise data management industry experience.  I am an independent consultant, professional speaker, and freelance writer for hire, as well as a regular contributor to Information-Management.com and DataRoundtable.com.

 

Best of Data Quality

Data and its Relationships with Quality

Data Quality and Miracle Exceptions

Data Quality and Chicken Little Syndrome

Data Quality: Quo Vadimus?

Plato’s Data

You Say Potato and I Say Tater Tot

Data Myopia and Business Relativity

Finding Data Quality

Why isn’t our data quality worse?

How Data Cleansing Saves Lives

The Dichotomy Paradox, Data Quality and Zero Defects

Is your data accurate, but useless to your business?

DQ-Tip: “There is no such thing as data accuracy...”

Data Quality and the Cupertino Effect

There is No Such Thing as a Root Cause

You only get a Return from something you actually Invest in

Data Quality and the Bystander Effect

The Data Quality Wager

Selling the Business Benefits of Data Quality

“Some is not a number and soon is not a time”

What going to the dentist taught me about data quality

Which came first, the Data Quality Tool or the Business Need?

Do you believe in Magic (Quadrants)?

Adventures in Data Profiling

Best of Data Governance

Cooks, Chefs, and Data Governance

Data Governance Frameworks are like Jigsaw Puzzles

Data Governance and the Buttered Cat Paradox

Data Governance Star Wars: Bureaucracy versus Agility

OCDQ Radio - Data Governance Star Wars

The Stakeholder’s Dilemma

Beware the Data Governance Ides of March

Aristotle, Data Governance, and Lead Rulers

Data Governance and the Adjacent Possible

The Three Most Important Letters in Data Governance

The Data Governance Oratorio

Connect Four and Data Governance

The Diffusion of Data Governance

Jack Bauer and Enforcing Data Governance Policies

The Prince of Data Governance

MacGyver: Data Governance and Duct Tape

The People Platform

The Business versus IT—Tear down this wall!

The Road of Collaboration

Has Data Become a Four-Letter Word?

Delivering Data Happiness

No Datum is an Island of Serendip

Turning Data Silos into Glass Houses

Poor Data Quality is a Virus

 

Best of Big Data

HoardaBytes and the Big Data Lebowski

Magic Elephants, Data Psychics, and Invisible Gorillas

OCDQ Radio - Data Quality and Big Data

Will Big Data be Blinded by Data Science?

Exercise Better Data Management

A Tale of Two Datas

The Graystone Effects of Big Data

Big Data el Memorioso

Information Overload Revisited

Big Data Lessons from Orbitz

Best of Business Intelligence

Dot Collectors and Dot Connectors

The Data-Decision Symphony

Thaler’s Apples and Data Quality Oranges

The Speed of Decision

Good-Enough Data for Fast-Enough Decisions

Data Confabulation in Business Intelligence

Data, Information, and Knowledge Management

The Real Data Value is Business Insight

OCDQ Radio - Decision Management Systems

OCDQ Radio - Big Data and Big Analytics

 

Best of Communication

The Importance of Envelopes

The Point of View Paradox

The Balancing Act of Awareness

Shut Your Mouth

Podcast: Open Your Ears

Hailing Frequencies Open

The Game of Darts – An Allegory

Podcast: Business Technology and Human-Speak

Not So Strange Case of Dr. Technology and Mr. Business

The Acronymicon

Best of Random Thoughts

Common Change

The Great Rift

The Winning Curve

Persistence

Mistake Driven Learning

Channeling My Inner Beagle: The Case for Hyperactivity

Mind the Gap

The Fragility of Knowledge

“I can make glass tubes”

The War of Word Craft

 

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