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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

Conclusion

As you learned in this chapter, launching powerfully is the best way to create momentum in your company’s data transformation. By moving quickly and comprehensively, and by anchoring in the maturity assessment (as covered in Chapter 4), you will have a firm foundation by which to generate significant impact to your organization. In this chapter, we covered the basics of a successful program launch, including the following:

  1. How to speak clearly and in business terminology
  2. How to design communication patterns leading up to and at launch
  3. Building a launch plan
  4. Creating feedback loops to gather inputs
  5. Incorporating feedback for even more powerful messaging

In the next chapter, I will walk you through how to identify and construct quick wins to help build velocity to your data transformation’s launch, so that you can gain the support and interest of your organization quickly and with impact. These two chapters build on each other to...