Frequently asked questions
- Q: Why is the membership cost for the IAIDQ US $85? Would it be possible to have the membership fee be at a lower fee?
- A: We considered the cost and whether it would be a reasonable fee
or not. We know the costs of having administrative support should we
outsource it and those costs are greater than $40 per member per
year. However, the real value of this association is the following:
- Our goal is to help people know the true principles of quality management applied to information.
- Leading edge organizations are recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars in savings by eliminating the costs of process failure and the information scrap and rework caused by defective data. We feel that the value proposition for information quality management far exceeds an $85 membership fee per year.
- Q: How does the IAIDQ and its vision fit with other data related organizations such as DAMA?
- A: The IAIDQ focuses on the discipline of information/data quality
management while organizations such as DAMA focus on the discipline of
information or data resource mangement. Information or Data Resource
Management and Information or Data Quality management are two separate
disciplines. While they deal with the same subject, data and
information, they are distinct disciplines:
- Information Resource Management is a management discipline that applies sound management principles to information as a strategic resource of the enterprise. The disciplines of financial resource management and human resource management are the patterns for the principles of IRM or DRM.
- Information Quality Management is a management discipline that applies sound quality management principles to information as a product of business and manufacturing processes. The disciplines of manufacturing quality and health care quality are the patterns for the principles of IQ or DQ management.
So, while IRM/DRM addresses the "management" of information, Information Quality Management addresses the "production" of quality information to
consistently meet all knowledge worker (information customer) needs.IQ/DQ management deals with assessing information quality and improving processes to eliminate the causes of defective data. These are not within the discipline of IRM/DRM.
