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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

What roles are needed

The roles needed in an office of the CDO vary depending on the size and complexity of the organization. The CDO plays a critical role in helping organizations make better decisions by providing them with access to high-quality data. They also help organizations to comply with data privacy regulations. Therefore, the first role we will establish and define is that of CDO. The CDO is unlikely to be the first hire for data in an organization.

Most often, there are team members who exist and may even be excelling prior to the hiring or establishment of the CDO. Usually, some kind of organizational moment (a crisis, a need to make a shift toward using data, a realization that the company is failing to make timely decisions) has happened, which drives the hiring of a data executive. There are usually data professionals in a company ahead of this hire. They usually are not organized in a central function, or they are centralized but with lower-level professionals...