Can You Trust Your Data? Establishing the Need for a Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic

Abstract

An organization's measurement and analysis infrastructure directly Impacts the quality of the decisions made by people at all organizational levels Ensuring information quality is a challenge for most organizations-partly because they might not be fully aware of their own data quality levels Without this information they cannot know the full business impact of poor or unknown data quality or determine how to begin improving their data This report describes common errors in measurement and analysis and the need for a criterion-based assessment method that will allow organizations to evaluate key characteristics of their measurement programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA491818

Entities

People

  • David Zubrow
  • James Mccurley
  • Mark Kasunic

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Catalogs
  • Commerce
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Errors
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Infrastructure
  • International Organizations
  • Measurement
  • Motivation
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Standards

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).