2.5 Chapter 2: key points

• The Internet is the most used, largest, global and accessible source of information;
• The majority of Internet users consider the Internet has a reliable source of information and are aware of quality issues;
• Accuracy is the most important dimension in data quality and can be accepted in some cases with a certain level of acceptance;
• Some companies are only living on information;
• Company's data are used by other companies to make decisions;
• Data quality issues are touching all kind of organizations;
• The loss associated to data quality is estimated from 15 to 25% of the operating profit;
• In most of the cases Database Management System is not the cause of data quality issues;
• A majority of businesses do not have proper goals defined regarding the findability of their material within their research environment;
• Cultivate cross-functional collaboration and pro efficient behavior within companies are the keys to set up good information retrieval systems;
• Making content findable is the job responsibility of everyone within a company;
• People will not seek information that makes their jobs harder (even if it may benefit the organization they work for)
• Users are sacrificing information quality for accessibility;
• People are assigning Advanced to complex. Whereas Advanced is the right way to search.
• Accuracy issue can be reduced by checking the information from three independent and reliable sources;