Dealing with Complexity: A Method to adapt and implement a Maturity Model for Corporate Data Quality Management

Reference models usually serve as starting points for developing company specific models. Unfortunately, successful usageof reference models is often impeded by various aspects, such as a lack of acceptance among employees, incorrect modelimplementation, or high project costs - all of which more often than not are resulting from an imbalance between the modelscomplexity and the complexity of a companys specific structures. The paper at hand develops a methodical approach fortaking a given reference model (the Maturity Model for Corporate Data Quality Management) and transforming it into acompany specific model, with a particular focus on the specific complexity of a companys structures. Corporate Data QualityManagement describes the quality oriented organization and control of a companys key data assets such as material,customer, and vendor data. Two case studies show how the method has been successfully implemented in real-worldscenarios.