Total Information Risk Management

OCDQ Radio is an audio podcast about data quality and its related disciplines, produced and hosted by Jim Harris.

During this episode, I am joined by special guest Dr. Alexander Borek, the inventor of Total Information Risk Management (TIRM) and the leading expert on how to apply risk management principles to data management.  Dr. Borek is a frequent speaker at international information management conferences and author of many research articles covering a range of topics, including EIM, data quality, crowd sourcing, and IT business value.  In his current role at IBM, Dr. Borek applies data analytics to drive IBM’s worldwide corporate strategy.  Previously, he led a team at the University of Cambridge to develop the TIRM process and test it in a number of different industries.  He holds a PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge.

This podcast discusses his book Total Information Risk Management: Maximizing the Value of Data and Information Assets, which is now available world-wide and is a must read for all data and information managers who want to understand and measure the implications of low quality data and information assets.  The book provides step by step instructions, along with illustrative examples from studies in many different industries, on how to implement total information risk management, which will help your organization:

• Learn how to manage data and information for business value.

• Create powerful and convincing business cases for all your data and information management, data governance, big data, data warehousing, business intelligence, and business analytics initiatives, projects, and programs.

• Protect your organization from risks that arise through poor data and information assets.

• Quantify the impact of having poor data and information.

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