The Role of Data Stewards in Operational Data Usability Assurance
The third of our data governance implementation directives is reporting, but in the context of operationalization for data stewards, the focus is not the reporting of compliance to data policies but...
View ArticleThe Data Policy Lifecycle
There is a lot of talk about the need for data policies, but when a data governance committee sits down to the first meeting, the lack of organizational preparedness leads to the situation in which the...
View ArticleDetermination of Business Dependence for Data Policy Definition
The definition of a data policy can be motivated by business dependencies that originate with corporate value drivers such as increased revenue generation, decreased expenses, reduction in operational...
View ArticleDrafting a Policy
What goes into a data policy? First, I would suggest that any data policy have a description of the business justification, the data sets that are the focus of the policy, the enumeration of the data...
View ArticleReviewing and Approving a Policy
Defining a policy is one thing, but vetting it and garnering general approval from across the governance community is another. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of familiarity that the data...
View ArticleConsidering the Value Proposition for Data Governance
The trick to establishing the value proposition of instituting a data governance program is to establish a direct relationship between corporate business objectives and reliance on trustworthy...
View ArticleThe Data Governance Value Proposition: Understanding the Value Hierarchy
In my previous post, I suggested that the justification for data governance must be cast in the context of key corporate value drivers, and noted five high-level dimensions of value. However, the...
View ArticleThe Data Governance Value Proposition: Engaging the Business Users
Over the past few posts, I have suggested that in any organization, value is created in a number of ways, and at the same time, the creation of value is dependent on the use of information to power key...
View ArticleThe Data Governance Value Proposition: Linking Business Objectives to...
In my last blog post, I suggested that a good place to start in evaluating the value proposition is engaging the business users to understand how they use data and what the criteria are for data...
View ArticleWhere Government Affects Data Governance
Dodd-Frank, Financial Stability, and the Use of Information To round out our perspective on the regulatory demands for formal data governance (along with Basel and Solvency), it is worthwhile to draw...
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