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Organizations are increasingly aware of the overwhelming advantages of high-quality information. They are also painfully aware of the significant costs of low-quality information—costs that translate into hard dollars, reduced productivity, waste, and myriads of other consequences—even in some situations affecting quality-of-life. All three intensive courses address these issues and are based on state-of-the-art research findings and experiences with leading organizations conducted at MIT. The courses are designed to give participants the knowledge and tools to understand and solve information quality issues, prepare their organization for IQ initiatives and programs, and deliver the benefits of improved data quality.

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Questions

1.What do the MIT Executive IQ Course (15.56s), the UC Berkeley-MIT IQ Workshop, and the Information Quality (IQ) Certificate have in common?

2.What is the difference between IQ I and IQ II and which one should I take?

3.What kinds of certificates are awarded in the IQ Certificate Program? Do the other 2 courses award certificates?

Answers

1. The MIT Executive IQ Course and the UC Berkeley-MIT workshop both cover foundational concepts and principles on Day 1. After Day 1, the MIT Executive IQ Course focuses on the latest MIT research findings and best practices. Completion of either sessions waives the IQK component of the IQ-I course. For information about waiving the other two components, please contact Dr. Richard Wang at rwang@mit.edu or call 617-739-7234.

The MIT Information Quality Management (IQM) Certificate Program is a new offering consisting of:

IQ I: Principles and Foundations

IQ II: Theory and Practice (under development)

IQ III: The Reflective Practitioner (under development)

2. IQ I: Principles and Foundations (weeklong intensive course) is a prerequisite to IQ II. IQ I readies participants for real-world IQ problem solving. Participants are presented with foundational IQ knowledge seen from a continuous improvement approach, IQ-related technical knowledge, and essential concepts, methods and techniques for statistical and quality processes and measurements. Participants are also prepared to deal with the special challenges of managing IQ projects.

IQ II: Theory and Practice builds on the principles and foundations learned in IQ I and prepares participants to develop and implement IQ programs. In addition to the IQ I perquisite, the participant is required to have completed an information quality project in a real-world setting, documented the project, submitted the project to MIT-IQ program for review and published at the MIT-IQ program web site. During IQ II, the participants will learn and apply the latest research findings and best practices to their own organizational setting, having presented their projects at the beginning of the course, and attended the lectures and workshops designed for IQ II.

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3. All three courses award Certificates of Completion to those who complete the courses. Additionally, in the IQ Certificate Program, participants may elect to take exams at the end of each course (IQ I, IQ II, IQ III). Upon passing these exams, participants are awarded a letter of certificate summarizing the content covered by the course. In order to take IQ II, participants will need to present a copy of this letter as fulfillment of the pre-requisite.

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