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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

Business outcomes and data capabilities

Traditional data capabilities are managed from within IT departments, which is part of why they have historically not been as successful. IT measures of success are typically framed as project-based measures, such as meeting milestones, or in budget/time measures, dollars or hours saved. This early generation of data capability management inevitably led to difficult-to-measure-and-quantify outcomes, which is the basis of the evolution from IT outcomes toward business outcome-focused measurement of success.

Helpful Hint

If you continue to measure data capabilities in a traditional, legacy IT (project-based) way or exclusively budget/time, you may find that you create a conflict of interest between your business stakeholders and your incentives.

Often, your stakeholders need to have business outcomes that may not improve speed or budget but actually use an increase...