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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

Preface

The world generates ~2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day (and growing!). As a result, understanding and managing the data created becomes more complex every single day. It’s our job to drive simplicity, understanding, and ease of use to make accessing and using data as easy and understandable as possible.

As a data professional, our role is to ensure we can govern data and empower our businesses with the right data, at the right time, with the right controls. This book is a comprehensive guide on how to better understand what data governance is, its key components, and how to successfully position solutions in a way that translates into real, understandable business results. After reading this book, you will be able to successfully pitch and gain support for a data governance program, with measured outcomes in terms the business will understand and deeply value.

We will move from establishing a Chief Data and Analytics Office and building a business case to successfully implementing the more technical capabilities that any CDAO will need to deliver to drive successful data management. You will notice in this book that I emphasize the “why” behind these capabilities. In my experience, simply explaining what the capabilities are without being able to see how they can impact a business is a recipe for failure.

There are many more technical books available on each of these topics, and where I hope this book will provide a variance from what is already available is that: business value. I will spend time explaining the technical capabilities in terms your business stakeholders can understand, with the aim of creating a business-led program.

Ultimately, if you want to get into details about a specific tool or technical implementation, there are loads of other great resources (including books) you can head to drive your implementation, including a wonderful inventory from the publisher of this book, Packt.