Archive for August, 2007
Store offers TVs at £0.49
The BBC reported in September 2005 that a well known UK retailer was caught out when a technical error led to customers attempting to buy televisions from its website for £0.49 (less than a US$1.00 then).
Why is this an IQ Trainwreck?
Why is this a trainwreck?—The store was able to repudiate the transactions because of the huge […]“Wrong Site” surgery all too common
Surgeons often operate on the wrong side of the body, sometimes with fatal results. Read the full story here.
Leading Private Hospital ordered to cease Breast cancer Services
The Irish Examiner Newspaper reports today that Barrington’s Hospital, one of the leading private hospitals in the West of Ireland, has been ordered by the Irish Minister for Health to cease all Breast Cancer services on foot of concerns from her Chief Medical Officer and the Health Information & Quality Authority about the
“adequacy of the management and […]Cumbrian Train Crash—Poor IQ Management implicated
According to a report in the Guardian of 2007-08-27 the Cumbrian rail crash in Febuary 2007 that killed one person and injured many others had an Information Quality component which was the final link in the causal chain:
Alongside concerns over the points, the study’s focus will be a breakdown in communications among Network Rail’s Cumbria […]CalPERS apologizes for printing Social Security numbers on participant mailings
LA Times August 23, 2007The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension program, said Wednesday it accidentally printed the Social Security numbers of almost half a million retirees on brochures mailed last week.A mail-processing computer inadvertently added recipients’ partial or full Social Security numbers to mailing labels attached to brochures sent to […]
