Danette McGilvray is President and Principal of Granite
Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in information
quality management to support key business processes
around customer satisfaction, decision support, supply
chain management, and operational excellence.   Past
projects include enterprise data integration programs,
data warehousing strategies and best practices for large-
scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data
migrations for Fortune 500 organizations.
Danette helps clients in many industries by providing
consulting and training to address their information and
data quality challenges.  These issues result in waste
and inefficiency, damaged credibility with customers and
suppliers, and lack of trust in the information on which a
company depends for making decisions and transacting
business.
Danette is an invited speaker at conferences throughout
the United States and Europe.  She has been profiled in
PC Week and HP Measure Magazine and was an invited
delegate to the People’s Republic of China to discuss
roles and opportunities for women in the computer field.
She is a faculty member for The Data Warehousing
Institute (TDWI) and a member of DMReview.com’s Ask
the Expert panel; here business intelligence and data
warehousing professionals can ask questions of
industry leaders. Danette is a founding member of the
International Association for Information and Data Quality
Professionals (IAIDQ) and an active member of DAMA
International. She authored best practices highlighted in
Larry P. English’s Improving Data Warehouse and
Business Information Quality, which is a highly regarded
book about information quality and value.
Danette is author of Executing Data Quality Projects:  Ten
Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™,
published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.  This book
contains her “Ten Steps” approach to information
quality—a proven method for both understanding and
creating information and data quality in the enterprise.
Her trademarked approach, in which she has trained
Fortune 500 clients and hundreds of workshop
attendees, applies to all types of data and to all types of
organizations. See more about the book at:
http://tensteps.gfalls.com/
Credentials
Danette McGilvray

danette@gfalls.com

Phone: 510-501-8234
Danette McGilvray
President and Principal
Granite Falls Consulting, Inc.
Fremont, California USA

Phone: 510-501-8234
Fax:     510-505-9898
Email:  
danette@gfalls.com
Web:   www.gfalls.com
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