The exact composition of the teams whose principal job is to enable their coworkers to make data-driven decisions will vary as a business's entire data strategy matures. However, many misinterpret what it means to run a mature data-driven business. They believe that at some point all data will and should be governed, and that the team that develops the first QlikView data exploration and discovery projects with will be that governing body.
While a mature data-driven business does count with a large set of governed data and a talented data governance team, it should never be without new, unknown datasets, or without ideas about how to exploit existing datasets in new ways. It is also unrealistic that the same team enforce conformity at the same time that they must strive to innovate. It is for that reason that every mature data-driven business should have both a data research and development (R&D) team, and a data governance team. Each team will have a different data...