Processes and Alignments
These topics address what you do when you’re doing Data Governance. I’ve started with high-level overviews of a few basic topics: Roles & Responsibilities, Alignment, Communications,...
View ArticleGovernance and Alignment
Data Governance is a balancing act. On the one hand, you need to exert control over how groups create data, manage data, and use data. On the other hand, you need to promote appropriate levels of...
View ArticleGovernance Communications
At a Data Governance Conference in Orlando, Florida (USA) in December, 2006, a group of managers of successful Data Governance programs reached a startling consensus: They agreed that Data Governance...
View ArticleDealing With Politics
Should leaders of Data Governance programs get involved in corporate politics? That’s a trick question, because the truth is that it’s unavoidable. After all, politics are all around us. They affect...
View ArticleEngaging Stewards and Stakeholders
It seems like there are two types of Data Governance and Stewardship programs: 1) Thriving ones, with highly-engaged stakeholders, and 2) Ones whose futures are in question, since stakeholders and...
View ArticleImplementing Change Management
Most organizations have string change management – or at least change control – mechanisms for technology. They usually have change management for software applications. They have change management for...
View ArticleGovernance and Decision-Making
Remember our (long) definition for Data Governance? “Data Governance is a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes, executed according to agreed-upon models...
View ArticleGovernance and Issue Resolution
One of the three most important jobs of a Data Governance program is to help resolve data-related issues. These may be conflicting data definitions, data usage concerns, or problems with how data is...
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