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James D. Funk
• James Funk has been involved with data administration and
information quality issues for the last 20 years. He is currently the
Chief Information Architect for a global manufacturing company and is
responsible for information architecture and information quality policy
within the organization. For the last 10 years he has focused on
identifying root causes of poor information quality and the development
of best practices for the presentation of information such as to
increase its understanding and effectiveness. He has implemented
information quality improvement processes in North America, Europe,
South America and Asia. He has presented seminars on issues related to
data administration and data quality at vendor user groups, such as IBM
and First Logic. He has presented seminars at conferences hosted by
Boston University and MIT on the value proposition of information
quality. He has presented seminars on Information Quality in North
America, China and Thailand. He is the co-author of the book “A Data
Quality Journey” (MIT Press, forthcoming).
• James has been the conference co-chair of the annual MIT International
Conference for Information Quality (ICIQ) for three years. He has been
associated with the MIT TDQM program for almost 10 years and has
championed the development of research that leads to new ideas that can
be applied in industry, especially in the areas of improving the
effective use of information. He is currently the co-chair of the Align
Data Business Requirements Group sponsored by EAN International and UCC
which is developing global standards for the exchange of accurate and
consistent data between trading partners in the consumer products
industry. In this role he has assisted in activity that is analyzing the
causes of inaccurate data in the electronic exchange of information
between partners and the development of best practices to overcome these
problems.
• James has over 30 years experience in information technology and
business in utility, manufacturing and retail environments. He brings a
wealth of experience and knowledge for solving information quality
problems to these seminars and he has a passion for helping
organizations understand how to become more effective and agile by
beginning the journey to improved information quality |
