"Garbage in, garbage out" - a bad model for data collection...

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Data is becoming more important than ever for winning and wowing customers. But many organisations admit that their data collection just isn't good enough

The term "garbage in, garbage out" was first coined in the early 1960s, when computer programs ran on paper tape, but the ideas that the phrase embodies arguably go back even further - to the days ...

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