Companies increasingly want to mature their Data Governance, the formal Data Management capabilities around its value as a service, in 2023. That way, organizations can respond to an uncertain business environment quickly and flexibly. While Kelle O’Neal, founder and CEO of the data consulting firm First San Francisco Partners, first identified this need for Data Governance as a […]
Why Mature Data Governance Is Essential for Data-Driven Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
This is part one of a two-part article. In this section, we discuss how Data Governance can be leveraged to support data-driven diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In the next section, we will look at how to manage DEI data risk. Diversity is recognized as key to increasing performance within organizations. Chief diversity officers face […]
A 12-Step Program for Improving Data Literacy
In our digitally obsessed economy, it’s become all too prevalent for knowledge workers to assume that data problems are best solved with newer and better tech. In fact, the most powerful solutions for maximizing business value are right under the noses of management – in the form of improving data literacy skills. In the service of […]
What Are Data Governance Tools?
Data Governance is the practice of creating processes, frameworks, and roles to manage an organization’s data. With today’s data-driven organizations focusing more on generating enormous amounts of data and analyzing them to pivot their business, it has become crucial to manage data the right way. Data Governance tools are the software applications that help you get […]
Finding the Right Data Governance Model
Data Governance has received much attention in both the academic and practitioner communities over the past 15 years. Compared to the even more recent concept of Data Governance, IT governance has evolved from the initial concept of corporate governance. In the past year, the interest has increased with the evolution of the modern data stack and cloud adoption, […]
Data Governance 101
Data Governance (DG), a formalized practice that connects different components – such as roles, processes, communications, metrics, and tools – increases data’s value. By harmonizing these fundamental elements, governance ensures that the right data flows efficiently to the right resources at the right time. In this Data Governance 101 article, we will look at the definition […]
Data Ethics: New Frontiers in Data Governance
Would you feel comfortable serving as a Data Governance consultant for an organized crime family … but not for a brokerage with tax fraud in its past? Could the use of ransomware be considered socially acceptable if its demands benefitted needy children? These hypotheticals might sound outrageous – and indeed, they are meant to be provocative – […]
How to Become a Data Steward
An essential role in any data-driven organization, a data steward is expected to manage and protect valuable data resources while ensuring that the integrity of the data remains intact. A steward must ensure that the data is useful to the company and meets its business objectives. Data stewards are also responsible for monitoring the data […]
Challenges of Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
Today, it would be really hard to find a business totally free of cloud services. In spite of battling centralized “no-cloud” policies in some enterprises, individual departments, work groups, and units are increasingly subscribing to services for data storage and backup, media services, CRM, hosted analytics, and more. Even developers are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and […]
How to Influence Data Quality Through Data Stewardship
To get value from data, data stewards must understand business requirements and apply them. When business ambiguity arises about best serving data stakeholders, data stewards need to know how to find out this information and with whom to speak. Then these data trustees influence Data Quality for the better by aligning fit for purpose with business needs. Data stewards […]