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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

Why you should baseline data management maturity

While you are off Chapter 2, Building a Coalition of Advocates, and Chapter 3, Building a High Performing Team, you should also launch a data management maturity assessment (ideally, concurrently). This process will help you understand the company’s data maturity horizontally across the organization leveraging a standardized approach, which will help highlight any blind spots you or your team did not uncover and help identify any biases (unconscious or not) you may have had in assessing the company’s needs. Additionally, it will help identify areas where the stakeholders are aware of the maturity level for their areas or are unaware of the maturity level. This can help you build your relationship with your stakeholders by helping them understand the state of the union.

Foundational reasons to baseline

You will need to start by understanding and communicating the purpose of this assessment. Your communications will...