by Angela Guess
Rob Karel of Informatica recently shared his list of organizational consideration for Data Governance. He writes, “While the People facet of our Data Governance Framework focuses on skills and responsibilities, the Organizational Alignment facet focuses on the working relationships between dependent roles. Many organizations begin their data governance journey putting decision-making responsibility, resourcing and stewardship within existing organizational structures – and early business value and momentum can certainly be delivered this way. But to truly scale data governance as a holistic, cross-enterprise effort benefiting multiple parts of the business, the current state of your organizational structure will have to adapt.”
He goes on, “In looking to define an optimal organizational structure to support your data governance goals, questions that should be addressed include: (1) Who will be the executive sponsor? As discussed in my …By The People, For The People post, the optimal executive sponsor will be very senior CxO-level executive(s) whose responsibilities span functional, line of business, application and geographic silos. (2) Will there be an executive steering committee? For any organization larger than a few thousand employees or $1 billion in revenue, it’s very common – and a best practice – to form an executive steering committee or council to help support and drive the cross-functional decision-making, prioritization, resourcing and change management.”
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photo credit: Informatica
