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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 Automation for Impact and More Powerful Results

Traditional data governance processes can feel like a program that is separate from the business. With the pace of today’s modern business models, governance must be embedded into the process, and that requires a new way of thinking about data governance. In modern data governance teams, there is a shift away from too much committee work, with more emphasis placed on embedding data governance into processes by design. I refer to this newer model of governance as data governance by design.

This newer way of thinking requires data governance professionals to think and act differently when it comes to governance activities. Data governance by design requires professionals to think about how to embed data governance capabilities into a business process from the start, not alongside it after it has been built. The longer I have spent in the business of data, the more I see the demands of data increasing at a pace that does not...