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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

Executing a data management maturity assessment

Executing the assessment can be a bit of a nerve-wracking process. You are likely to encounter some great supporters and some less supportive stakeholders. It’s critical that you have a great value proposition and are able to explain why this benefits the stakeholder as an individual (what they will personally get out of the process), why it benefits their team, and why it benefits the company at large.

It may go without saying, but communication is the most important part of this process. Your primary responsibility is to remain unbiased, share information, translate to ensure understanding across the enterprise at the highest and lowest levels, and drive the assessment results to inform your strategy and ultimately the value of data at your organization.

[#1] Defining the scope

Before you prepare to launch your assessment, you will need to define the scope of the assessment. Often, it can be tempting to say “all...