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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

Building value measures into your stakeholder map

As you work to build out your company’s value measurement methodology (like we did previously), for each project, you can start to build out what this value measurement and value map look like for all of your stakeholders. This process is time-consuming but critical to demonstrate the value of your team’s impact enterprise-wide.

Thinking back to Chapter 2, where we built out the stakeholder map, you can add in the value measurement methodology against each stakeholder group. A best practice is to sit with each stakeholder on a regular basis (I like to do this quarterly) to go through a Quarterly Business Review for the value your team has brought to bear for them. This idea of a Quarterly Business Review would walk them through the following:

  • The scope of your engagement with the stakeholder
  • A list of discrete projects you have completed for them in the quarter (or year)
  • A list of enterprise services...