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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 solution examples powered by data automation

Now that we have gone through the types of data automation, the benefits of data automation, how to calculate the return on your data automation investment, and what to do to implement it, the hardest remaining part is identifying where to get started. I recommend you select an area of the business that is exceptionally manual and begin. Yes, just begin. By focusing your efforts on one area, you can show dramatic results. If you spread your data automation efforts across divisions, it may become hard to feel the dramatic improvement that can be realized through data automation capabilities. By focusing your efforts, stakeholders in other divisions will take notice, and you can, over time, move into new parts of the organization.

Here are 10 strategic areas to consider starting with when it comes to designing your data automation capability in your organization:

Customer domain

First, in the customer domain (every company has...