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January 25, 2006
Data Quality and UK plc
Yet another UK Government IT project has been delayed due to data quality problems: Computing: Data quality problems halt latest police pilots of firearms database.
Will they ever learn? Then again, they're not the only people to have had problems with data quality; survey after survey shows that up to 85% of IT projects suffer from delay or are cancelled due to data quality issues, but they don't all make the headlines.
Lord Marlesford summed up a common frustration , especially considering the government's aspirations for future IT projects:
‘If the Home Office really is incapable, over a period of eight years, of computerising something as straightforward as a few hundred thousand firearms records, then it does suggest that they do not have a hope of making a success of the introduction of the national identity card scheme.’
Let me know what you think - are all government projects doomed to failure?
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Posted by Steve Tuck at January 25, 2006 12:45 PM
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