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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

Aligning on outcomes

Let’s now break these eight steps into an actionable plan, using the previous example. These eight steps will explain how to, in specific detail, align with your business stakeholders. As you become more confident in this process, you will find it takes less time to complete this process. However, the first few times you go through it, you may find it takes a bit of time to map out. This would be a good process to work on with someone on your team or as a small team to ensure you capture all possible outcomes and work to refine them into a clear outcome prior to sharing them with your stakeholders for input and discussion. This is also a great process to work on with a stakeholder if they are open to collaborating more closely with you.

Step 1 – Aligning on the business outcome

Start by ensuring you and the business stakeholder (referred to as the business sponsor) are aligned on the business outcome they need, to support their business strategy...