An IQ Trainwreck is a problem that affects real people in the real world that has, at its heart, poor quality information or a failure to manage the quality of information. These can range from the inconvenience of dealing with poor customer service from poor quality data/information (see www.obriend.info for an example) to the loss of life or limb that might arise if there is a failure to manage Information Quality appropriately.

Why this site? Many Information Quality professionals and ‘gurus’ have kept logs of IQ Trainwrecks on their websites. However, there are so many of these issues world wide every week that the IAIDQ felt that a central platform was needed to allow for these issues to be collated and commented on by experts and concerned persons world wide. We’ve put the examples of ‘how not to do it’ on a seperate website to make sure that people don’t confuse IQ Trainwrecks for examples of Best Practices that we will be featuring over on the IAIDQ’s website – www.iaidq.org

You don’t have to be an IAIDQ member to take part in discussions on this site but we would encourage you to join the Association.