Data Governance
A compass provides a clear sense of direction, guiding travelers through unfamiliar terrain. Similarly, data governance establishes a clear direction for an organization’s data management efforts. It sets goals, defines strategies, and outlines the path toward effective data utilization, ensuring that data initiatives align with the organization’s overall objectives. However, the term data governance can also get nebulous and cause friction in many organizations. Sometimes, data leaders throw the kitchen sink at it without really breaking down the individual components of data governance and understanding its relevance to the organization. A clear data strategy needs to be in place and the strategy needs to align with the business goals.
As we will uncover in this chapter, data governance is a very broad topic; trying to implement every component of governance at once, without clearly mapping value to the business, will lead to a data platform that...