Information & Data Quality

ERD diagram

In today's interconnected Information Age it is more important than ever for organisations to properly manage the quality of their Information Assets.

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Information Governance

The Governance Chess Game

In today's Information Age "Everyone is Enterprise" making good Information Governance more important than ever.

That often requires challenging changes to be made as people change their thinking about who is responsible and accountable for Information.

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Data Protection Compliance

Balance

Smart organisations realise that compliance with Data Protection rules is a key element in a trusted Information Fuelled business, and it's about more than just securing the data!

 

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The Associates' Blog

Horse and Cart Assembly - RFTM advised

Submitted by Daragh O Brien on January 19, 2012 - 12:20

Horse/Cart Assembly (doing it wrong)Over the past few weeks there has been a glut of news stories in Ireland about proposed uses of, sharing of, or plans for data in Ireland. I've even been interviewed in the media about one of them in particular. In one interview I used the phrase "cart/horse assembly instructions" to describe the approach that seemed to be prevailing with regard to the development of key Information Assets.

2012 - The Year of Privacy?

Submitted by Daragh O Brien on December 29, 2011 - 01:56

Earlier this evening I had a long chat with my friend and fellow information nut Jim Harris about the trends and themes of Data Privacy, Data Governance, and Information Quality in 2011 and what they mean in 2012. 

My blunt take is that from 2012 onwards respect for Data Protection principles will increase, largely as a result of organisations having fallen foul of regulations in 2011 but also as a result of organisations not being in a position to waste money defending instances of breach either of security or fair obtaining or fair processing principles. The focus will move to designing privacy in not through regulatory efforts per se but through 'englightened self-interest'.

Over the course of the first quarter of 2012 this site will be getting a number of small make-overs to improve our own ability to meet or exceed the requirements of the Data Protection regulations within the technical limitations of the software tools we are using and the level of financial or other resource investment required.

 

  1. We will remove the need for anonymous users to have cookies written to their computers. This has been done already in the most recent build of the site.
  2. We will implement anonymisation of IP addresses which we process for a variety of technical and business process reasons. Again, this is underway with this build of the site.
  3. We will implement a register of Cookies and a clear mechanism by which site visitors can notify us of cookies which have been written from our domain to their computer which are not on the register.