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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

The value of metadata management

When I think about the value of data management capabilities, I think about value in terms of what can I do after I deploy this capability that I am not able to do today. How do I measure this difference? It may be in dollars saved, fines avoided, hours of employee time that is saved, revenue that is generated, opportunity value unlocked, or some combination thereof. Any of these value vectors can make the capability worth deploying.

The difference with metadata is that subsequent data management capabilities (as we will explore in Chapters 711) will not reach their full potential without metadata capabilities in place. Thus, this capability is foundational, which also needs to be accounted for when measuring the value of metadata management. There are five core tenants to the value of metadata management capabilities:

  • Transparency: Metadata management enables transparency about the data. Technical metadata tells us where the data...