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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

Assessing readiness for launch

Before you prepare to launch, you need to pause and assess the current state. No, I don’t mean from a data management maturity perspective, but the business readiness. If you head into your launch plan assuming that the business is more ready to change than you assessed it to be, you will face resistance and will be frustrated early. If you underappreciate the readiness, you might find yourself selling it on a transformation it is already bought into. This can be equally as bad. If the business isn’t ready, you might be pushing for change they don’t think they need. If it is beyond ready, you’ll be talking about change when they are already wanting to see the change happening. You lose credibility and support in both scenarios. That’s why assessing the readiness is so important.

The degree to what you need to assess has several factors to consider:

  • Do you have an established data function?
  • How trusted...