Challenges of Teaching Information Quality: Demonstrating an Adaptation of a Popular Management Game in Teaching Information Quality

Over the last years information quality has gained increasingly importance in practice as well as academia. Recently aspects of information quality are included in many Information Systems’ curricula. However, teaching aspects of information quality to students is challenging and often emphasizes merely theoretical aspects. As a consequence many graduates have a limited understanding of information quality issues and management practice. In order to help to raise the awareness of information quality aspects, we developed a teaching tool that can demonstrate the impact of poor information quality and the importance of information quality management. The tool is based on a popular management game and can show the effects of information quality on organizational decision-making.