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Data Governance Handbook

By : Wendy S. Batchelder
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Data Governance Handbook

By: Wendy S. Batchelder

Overview of this book

2.5 quintillion bytes! This is the amount of data being generated every single day across the globe. As this number continues to grow, understanding and managing data becomes more complex. Data professionals know that it’s their responsibility to navigate this complexity and ensure effective governance, empowering businesses with the right data, at the right time, and with the right controls. If you are a data professional, this book will equip you with valuable guidance to conquer data governance complexities with ease. Written by a three-time chief data officer in global Fortune 500 companies, the Data Governance Handbook is an exhaustive guide to understanding data governance, its key components, and how to successfully position solutions in a way that translates into tangible business outcomes. By the end, you’ll be able to successfully pitch and gain support for your data governance program, demonstrating tangible outcomes that resonate with key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1:Designing the Path to Trusted Data
7
Part 2:Data Governance Capabilities Deep Dive
14
Part 3:Building Trust through Value-Based Delivery
20
Part 4:Case Study

Data Operations

One of the less-focused-on areas of data governance, data operations, is often left out of the conversation. All companies have some sort of operational function focused on data, but they are often not visible to leaders. Data operations teams are often stuck behind visualization teams or governance functions, unknown to the company. What are they really? What do data operations teams provide to the company?

This chapter will dive into this topic. While I have shared previously that data governance tends to be unappreciated, I want to clarify that while true, I also believe it’s data professionals who are largely to blame for this lack of value. In this chapter, we will dig into what you can do to help bring into focus the value data operations bring to your organization and how you can show measurable value to the executives you interact with.

Example

Imagine this: You are a sales executive, and it’s crunch time. It’s the last day of the...