Cutter Consortium

Data Quality

Organizations with top-quality data are better positioned to succeed. Exceptional data can enable a company to reduce costs, make better decisions, and have more satisfied customers. The volume of data that flows through your organization everyday is immense. From customer orders, to changes in inventory levels, purchased demographic data, financial data and more, Cutter Consortium can help you assess all your data quality needs, focus on your most important data and implement a rigorous approach to data quality that returns benefits to the business:

  • More accurate and easier to understand financial reports
  • Data that better enables operations departments to deliver the right goods and services to the right customers, on time and at a lower cost
  • Improved market data resulting in a better understanding of competitive position
  • More robust and accurate customer data, improving the ability of the sales department to maximize the lifetime value of a customer
  • More trustworthy data entering the organization from external suppliers
  • More pertinent, timely, and accurate information for decisionmakers
  • An opportunity for IT to "build in" data quality
  • A corporate focus on the most important data.

A sample data quality engagement may consist of:

  • A leadership roadmap to help leaders focus the effort, build support, develop needed policy and goals, measure progress, and manage change
  • A data quality assessment comparing your organization's data quality program against best practices, resulting in a series of recommendations
  • A study of your data supplier management practices, and a suggested structure to systematically improve quality and reduce costs associated with managing external suppliers of data. This effort can also be beneficial when applied to your cross-organization information chain.
  • A roadmap for building data quality into new systems, such as CRM applications, to ensure these systems can really provide the business benefits they promise
  • A mentoring program, including education and real-world testing, to train an individual(s) to be the data "maestro," or go-to person for your organization's data quality needs.

For more information on customizing a consulting engagement for your organization, contact Jack Wainwright, +1 781-641-5122 or jwainwright@cutter.com.

Data Quality