What is a data management maturity model?
A data management maturity model is a measurement framework used to assess the overall maturation of an organization’s management of its data. Said another way, it measures how well the company is managing data. The assessment provides a score by category, provides the aggregate maturity level of the company, and identifies areas for improvement. The maturity assessment is subjective. There are a series of ways to minimize the degree of subjectivity, which I will outline over the next several pages. Data management maturity models are broken down into different categories, and further broken down into levels of maturity against each of the categories, which helps minimize, but does not eliminate, the subjectivity.
A very simple (non-data) example would be to measure how grey something is:
Figure 4.1 – Visual example of the degree of grey
In this example, none of these colors are wrong, they are...