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Publication date: 1 June 2015

Chuan Shi, Rajesh Jugulum, Harold Ian Joyce, Jagmet Singh, Bob Granese, Raji Ramachandran, Donald Gray, Christopher H Heien and John R. Talburt

This paper aims to propose a funnel methodology that selects business data elements for data quality improvement practices at a financial company. Data quality is crucial in…

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Purpose

This paper aims to propose a funnel methodology that selects business data elements for data quality improvement practices at a financial company. Data quality is crucial in post-crisis recovery of the financial services industry. This allows the bank to monitor its critical data assets and improve its business operation by Six Sigma engagement that benefits from the good quality of data.

Design/methodology/approach

A funnel methodology is invented. It utilizes a rationalization matrix and statistical methods to identify critical data elements (CDEs) for data quality efforts from numerous candidates across business functions. The “Voice of the Customer” is achieved by including subject matter experts, whose knowledge and experience contribute to the entire process.

Findings

The methodology eliminates redundancy and reduces the number of data elements to be monitored, so that attention becomes focused on the right elements. In addition, the methodology ensures that the conduct of the data quality assessment is framed within a context of the functional area’s business objectives.

Originality/value

Measuring and improving data quality form a solid foundation of every Six Sigma engagement. When presented with large data elements, determining what to measure can be an arduous task. Having a proven systematic and valid process to reduce the CDE candidate pool becomes an operational necessity of paramount importance, and this justifies the value of the proposed methodology. Its implementation is described by a Basel II case study. The methodology is not restricted to financial services industry, and can be used readily in any other industry that requires data quality improvement.

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International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2040-4166

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Publication date: 2 October 2018

Yu Nie, John Talburt, Serhan Dagtas and Taiwen Feng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the chief data officer’s (CDO) presence and firm performance, and the moderating effect of firm size.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the chief data officer’s (CDO) presence and firm performance, and the moderating effect of firm size.

Design/methodology/approach

The performance data for 64 treatment firms with CDOs and 64 control firms without CDOs is collected from Compustat database. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is used to analyze the performance differences between treatment firms and control firms. Hierarchical regression method is used to test the moderating effect of firm size.

Findings

The results indicate that the profit ratios of treatment firms are significantly improved after the appointment of CDOs, and the profit ratios of treatment firms are significantly higher than that of the control firms. For the cost ratios, the findings provide some empirical evidence revealing two of the cost ratios are lower and only one ratio is higher for the treatment firms after CDOs’ appointment. Firm size moderates the relationship between the CDO’s presence and firm performance indicator, ROS, in the same direction. Firm size has no moderating effect on relationships between CDO’s presence and other performance indicators.

Practical implications

The findings provide practical insights that will help managers to realize the importance of CDOs and their work. CDOs would bring some cost to the firms, but they would bring more profit to firms. In addition, if for large firms, the CDO’s presence would bring more ROS.

Originality/value

The study explores the relationship between the CDO’s presence and firm performance. It is the first attempt to explore the CDO’s presence and the cost performance in the specific time period, and the study is also the first attempt to analyze the moderating effect of the firm size on the relationship between the CDO’s presence and firm performance.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 119 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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Publication date: 25 July 2019

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Strategies for Facilitating Inclusive Campuses in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-065-9

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Publication date: 25 July 2019

Shelley Price-Williams, Pietro Sasso and Roger “Mitch” Nasser Jr

The origin of the learning community, in higher education in the US, began over a century ago. In contemporary higher education, living-learning communities (LLCs) have become a…

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The origin of the learning community, in higher education in the US, began over a century ago. In contemporary higher education, living-learning communities (LLCs) have become a strategic way to foster student development, engagement, and success as well to advance key tenets of diversity and inclusion. Within this work, a historical narrative of the learning community is provided, in addition to a discussion of relative student development theory. Finally, this chapter positions diversity and inclusion as central to this educational intervention and frames the utility of this student engagement model within the Dynamic Student Development Metatheodel, a modern theory of student success and development.

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Strategies for Facilitating Inclusive Campuses in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-065-9

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Publication date: 28 February 2022

Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson

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Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-743-0

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Publication date: 2 May 2023

Natalie Glynn

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Youth Transitions Out of State Care: Being Recognized as Worthy of Care, Respect, and Support
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-487-8

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Publication date: 7 March 2025

Mark Bedoya Ulla

Coda (2023), Gray et al. (2016), and Lin et al. (2020) recognized that queer teachers have historically been victimized and marginalized in society because of their identity and…

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Coda (2023), Gray et al. (2016), and Lin et al. (2020) recognized that queer teachers have historically been victimized and marginalized in society because of their identity and sexuality. As a result, “the lived experiences of many queer-identified teachers in schools remain problematic, uncomfortable, and tension-filled” (Mayo, 2020, p. 32). Although there has been a substantial increase in research focused on queer studies in the context of higher education, more discussion and studies that center on the lives of queer teachers, especially in the context of language teaching, should be considered, particularly when it comes to their identity and agency. This chapter provides an introduction to and definition of essential terms that are utilized throughout the book. These include queer pedagogy, teacher agency, and social justice. These terms are absolutely important when it comes to understanding the dynamics that are at play in the classrooms of queer language teachers. While teacher agency is the ability of the teachers to make decisions in their classroom, social justice is the principle of fairness and equality in resource allocation and societal integration, addressing inequity in systems that prioritize certain social groups based on their position (Bell, 2007). It recognizes and dismantles societal disadvantages like racism, classism, sexism, ableism, and heteronormativity (Dyches & Boyd, 2017). In education, social justice aims to help individuals understand oppression and socialization within oppressive systems, appreciating unique qualities and preferences and challenging hierarchies (Bell, 2007; Dyches & Boyd, 2017).

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Queer Teachers' Agency in Language Education
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ISBN: 978-1-83662-931-3

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Publication date: 26 April 2024

César Augusto Ferrari Martinez

This chapter is dedicated to understanding the idea of international as a key notion to the development of globalisation and to promoting the rescaling of spaces and subjects in…

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This chapter is dedicated to understanding the idea of international as a key notion to the development of globalisation and to promoting the rescaling of spaces and subjects in contemporary higher education. The author discusses the concept of scale as a performative device that activates the capacities of bodies. Instead of seeing scale as a naturalised and hierarchical structure of spatial distribution, the author understands it as an ensemble of discourses and practices that produce scalar effects. Globalisation uses scale to promote the idea that subjects would become ‘international’ by being linked to privileged spaces and bodies in the Global North. In this sense, globalisation is not merely about nodes where certain flows converge. Rather, the author understands it as the political conditions that control and constrain the space for certain flows to occur and not others. Using assemblage analysis, the author presents and analyses three scenes taken from his ethnographic records that have as a guiding line the materialisation of the international. These scenes report the experience of being a Latin American doctoral student attending a congress in the United States, a tense situation experienced at a Chilean university academic event, and the unpretentious manifestation of an elaborate idea of internationality from a personal experience of a trip to India. The results point to three elaborations of the international: an optimistic view of a shared world, a geopolitical internationality and the production of a global corporeality.

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Critical Reflections on the Internationalisation of Higher Education in the Global South
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ISBN: 978-1-80455-779-2

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Publication date: 8 June 2020

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The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-965-6

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Publication date: 7 September 2011

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Women of Color in Higher Education: Changing Directions and New Perspectives
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ISBN: 978-1-78052-182-4

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