by Angela Guess
Loraine Lawson recently asked the question, is data governance worthy of executive attention? Lawson quips, “Ideally, sure. Why not? After all, who controls and accesses data isn’t just an exercise in power; it can have business, even legal, ramifications. But, on the other hand, do executives really care? Can you realistically even expect them to?” Lawson quotes an R. Ordowich, saying, “Do you imagine executives are losing sleep over data, never mind data governance?… Data governance attempts to govern the people and therein lays its Achilles heel. Few people want to be governed especially so by IT folks who conceived of data governance in the first place.”
Jim Orr disagrees. The article continues, “Orr is a long-time data management consultant and currently the global product marketing director at Information Builders. He’s also a founding member of the Data Governance Professional Organization with experience in numerous verticals and as a leader of various data-focused organizations to back up his ideas. He contends data governance is ‘the final frontier’ for organizations when it comes to cutting costs, increasing revenue, reducing risks and staying in compliance with regulations. That could amount to a lot of money for most midmarket and enterprise organizations, Orr notes — perhaps millions of dollars to the bottom line. So, as Orr sees it, executives who don’t understand data governance are missing out.”
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