Organizations today are rallying business users around using data to make better business decisions. Business users want to know where that data lives, understand if people are accessing the right data at the right time, and be assured that the data is of high quality. But they are not always out shopping for Data Quality […]
Deriving Business Value Through Data Governance
Growing companies often find themselves floating on an “ocean” of underutilized or misused data – data that doesn’t reach the people who would most benefit from it or reaches them at the wrong time. Preventing these issues is one of the primary objectives of Data Governance. It helps companies keep their customers satisfied with their […]
Dear Laura: Should We Hire Full-Time Data Stewards?
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. Last year I wrote […]
Fundamentals of Data Stewardship: Frameworks and Responsibilities
If organizations must have Data Stewardship, but struggle with deploying valuable Data Stewardship programs, how can companies mitigate the challenges and get better results faster? The Art of War, by the Chinese military general Sun Tzu, provides insight. He advised, “strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise […]
How to Evaluate a Data Governance Tool with 20 Indicators (Plus 1)
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Sometimes large companies choose tools and technologies guided by Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in order to “not take risks,” without knowing that this is not synonymous with a guarantee of good performance and easy implementation. In the Data Governance scenario, there are large vendors that incorporate a governance tool […]
Knowing Your Customers Starts with Knowing Who They Are
Click to learn more about author Graeme Thompson. It’s almost a cliché to say competitive pricing isn’t enough to please today’s customer. You already know they want value for their money. You know they expect a great experience. And you know that to deliver it, you need to build products and services around them. But […]
Case Study: State of Arizona Implements Model for State-Wide Data Governance
The Arizona state government wants to improve outcomes for the people they serve. Part of their plan to improve those outcomes involves a robust state-wide Data Governance program to change the culture and elevate the state of Data Management for a hundred Arizona agencies. Jeff Wolkove – State Data Management Architect for the Arizona Department […]
Achieving Data Governance 2.0
by Angela Guess Will Crump recently wrote in Business2Community, “The bigger the business, the more data it has. UPS, for example, stores more than 16 petabytes of data as it tracks packages and customer requests. But any company of any size can improve its data. That’s where data governance — the process of managing information […]
Are Data Governance and Information Governance Synonyms?
Click to learn more about author Tami Flowers. Wikipedia defines Data Governance as “Data governance is used by organizations to exercise control over processes and methods used by their data stewards and data custodians in order to improve data quality.” Whereas Wikipedia defines Information Governance “the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information […]
Data Stewards, Subject Matter Experts, and Data Managers: How They Fit Together
Malcolm Chisholm of Information Management recently wrote, “Much discussion exists about the role of a data steward and what it entails, and in my experience it is quite unclear in many enterprises. A large part of this lack of clarity seems to arise from confusion with two other roles – subject matter experts and data […]