By Spyros Stamoulis
The most effective business decisions are based on having accurate, easily accessible People Data. But for most businesses, such data is siloed across locations, departments, and divisions, having been sliced and diced by mergers and acquisitions, parsed by local users, and buffeted by periodic expansions and contractions.
Flawed People Data can compromise decision-making on key issues such as compensation benchmarking, training requirements, and regulatory compliance. And it is a persistent issue because there typically is confusion, or dissension, over who owns the data and where to start fixing it.
