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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

Post-deployment

Whether your deployment went well and adoption is progressing nicely, or you had to reapproach adoption as outlined in the section directly before this, you will need to focus on the adoption that occurs post-deployment. Early adopters aside, what happens after go-live is just the beginning of your success as a data professional.

First, assign someone on your team to build out a post-go-live adoption framework. This will include key capabilities such as the following:

  1. What is required for post-go-live adoption from us? From stakeholders? From users?
  2. What is a reasonable onboarding timeline?
  3. How will adoptions be funded?
  4. How will we measure success?
  5. How will we measure ongoing ROI?

This framework should be flexible enough to be leveraged for any data governance solution that your team deploys but focused enough that your stakeholders know what to expect from you on an ongoing basis.

Adoption roadmap

One of the key areas of your...