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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

Why policies, standards, and procedures can generate buzz

One of the easiest quick wins that you can deliver on the data governance side of your team is to establish effective and easy-to-understand policies, standards, and procedures. In my experience, some of your stakeholders will simply want to be able to self-deliver. I think this is a great signal. It means that you have highly qualified data professionals across your organization who want to be able to get started. However, if they are looking to your team to tell them what to do, how to do it, and how they want to do it in alignment with your team, then these are engaged stakeholders.

One of the best things you can do is provide them with the guidance that they are seeking. The easiest way to do this is to publish guidelines that they can use. While some of your data engineers and analytics professionals are delivering on other quick wins, focused on the more technical components of data governance, other team members can...