Data Goverence For The Executive

This practical book covers both strategies and tactics around managing a data governance initiative to help make the most of your data.

Managing data continues to grow as a necessity for modern organizations. There are seemingly infinite opportunities for organic growth, reduction of costs, and creation of new products and services. It has become apparent that none of these opportunities can happen smoothly without data governance. The cost of exponential data growth and privacy / security concerns are becoming burdensome. Organizations will encounter unexpected consequences in new sources of risk. The solution to these challenges is also data governance; ensuring balance between risk and opportunity. Data Governance, Second Edition, is for any executive, manager or data professional who needs to understand or implement a data governance program. It is required to ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their organization. This book offers an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable. This valuable resource provides comprehensive guidance to beginning professionals, managers or analysts looking to improve their processes, and advanced students in Data Management and related courses. With the provided framework and case studies all professionals in the data governance field will gain key insights into launching successful and money-saving data governance program. Incorporates industry changes, lessons learned and new approaches Explores various ways in which data analysts and managers can ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their organizations Includes new case studies which detail real-world situations Explores all of the capabilities an organization must adopt to become data driven Provides guidance on various approaches to data governance, to determine whether an organization should be low profile, central controlled, agile, or traditional Provides guidance on using technology and separating vendor hype from sincere delivery of necessary capabilities Offers readers insights into how their organizations can improve the value of their data, through data quality, data strategy and data literacy Provides up to 75% brand-new content compared to the first edition

While good data is an enterprise asset, bad data is an enterprise liability. Data governance enables you to effectively and proactively manage data assets throughout the enterprise by providing guidance in the form of policies, standards, processes and rules and defining roles and responsibilities outlining who will do what, with respect to data. While implementing data governance is not rocket science, it is not a simple exercise. There is a lot confusion around what data governance is, and a lot of challenges in the implementation of data governance. Data governance is not a project or a one-off exercise but a journey that involves a significant amount of effort, time and investment and cultural change and a number of factors to take into consideration to achieve and sustain data governance success. Data Governance Success: Growing and Sustaining Data Governance is the third and final book in the Data Governance series and discusses the following: • Data governance perceptions and challenges • Key considerations when implementing data governance to achieve and sustain success• Strategy and data governance• Different data governance maturity frameworks• Data governance – people and process elements• Data governance metrics This book shares the combined knowledge related to data and data governance that the author has gained over the years of working in different industrial and research programs and projects associated with data, processes, and technologies and unique perspectives of Thought Leaders and Data Experts through Interviews conducted. This book will be highly beneficial for IT students, academicians, information management and business professionals and researchers to enhance their knowledge to support and succeed in data governance implementations. This book is technology agnostic and contains a balance of concepts and examples and illustrations making it easy for the readers to understand and relate to their own specific data projects.

Master a proven approach to create, implement, and sustain a data strategy. Pervasive, data is a unique organizational resource, and this distinction warrants its own strategy. Data, representing your single non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic asset, is likely also your most poorly leveraged and underutilized organizational asset. Lack of talent, barriers in organizational thinking, and seven specific data sins prevent most organizations from benefiting fully from their data asset investments. Solving these prerequisites will allow your organization to: Improve your organization's data; Improve the way your people use data; and Improve the way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy. This method better focuses data and thinking in direct support of strategic objectives. After eliminating necessary prerequisites, organizations can develop a disciplined and repeatable means of improving their data, literacy, standards, and controls using data governance practices. Once in place, the process (based on the theory of constraints) becomes a variant of lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts covered include: An overview of data strategy prerequisites; A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints; Why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance; Balancing operational results with capability development; An objective definition of data-centric thinking; and Ways to monetize these efforts.

Data-governance programs focus on authority and accountability for the management of data as a valued organizational asset. Data Governance should not be about command-and-control, yet at times could become invasive or threatening to the work, people and culture of an organization. Non-Invasive Data Governance™ focuses on formalizing existing accountability for the management of data and improving formal communications, protection, and quality efforts through effective stewarding of data resources. Non-Invasive Data Governance will provide you with a complete set of tools to help you deliver a successful data governance program. Learn how: • Steward responsibilities can be identified and recognized, formalized, and engaged according to their existing responsibility rather than being assigned or handed to people as more work. • Governance of information can be applied to existing policies, standard operating procedures, practices, and methodologies, rather than being introduced or emphasized as new processes or methods. • Governance of information can support all data integration, risk management, business intelligence and master data management activities rather than imposing inconsistent rigor to these initiatives. • A practical and non-threatening approach can be applied to governing information and promoting stewardship of data as a cross-organization asset. • Best practices and key concepts of this non-threatening approach can be communicated effectively to leverage strengths and address opportunities to improve.

Build an actionable, business value driven case for data governance to obtain executive support and implement with excellence Key Features Develop a solid foundation in data governance and increase your confidence in data solutions Align data governance solutions with measurable business results and apply practical knowledge from real-world projects Learn from a three-time chief data officer who has worked in leading Fortune 500 companies Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description2.5 quintillion bytes! This is the amount of data being generated every single day across the globe. As this number continues to grow, understanding and managing data becomes more complex. Data professionals know that it’s their responsibility to navigate this complexity and ensure effective governance, empowering businesses with the right data, at the right time, and with the right controls. If you are a data professional, this book will equip you with valuable guidance to conquer data governance complexities with ease. Written by a three-time chief data officer in global Fortune 500 companies, the Data Governance Handbook is an exhaustive guide to understanding data governance, its key components, and how to successfully position solutions in a way that translates into tangible business outcomes. By the end, you’ll be able to successfully pitch and gain support for your data governance program, demonstrating tangible outcomes that resonate with key stakeholders. What you will learn Comprehend data governance from ideation to delivery and beyond Position data governance to obtain executive buy-in Launch a governance program at scale with a measurable impact Understand real-world use cases to drive swift and effective action Obtain support for data governance-led digital transformation Launch your data governance program with confidence Who this book is for Chief data officers, data governance leaders, data stewards, and engineers who want to understand the business value of their work, and IT professionals seeking further understanding of data management, will find this book useful. You need a basic understanding of working with data, business needs, and how to meet those needs with data solutions. Prior coding experience or skills in selling data solutions to executives are not required.

This book presents a set of models, methods, and techniques that allow the successful implementation of data governance (DG) in an organization and reports real experiences of data governance in different public and private sectors. To this end, this book is composed of two parts. Part I on “Data Governance Fundamentals” begins with an introduction to the concept of data governance that stresses that DG is not primarily focused on databases, clouds, or other technologies, but that the DG framework must be understood by business users, systems personnel, and the systems themselves alike. Next, chapter 2 addresses crucial topics for DG, such as the evolution of data management in organizations, data strategy and policies, and defensive and offensive approaches to data strategy. Chapter 3 then details the central role that human resources play in DG, analysing the key responsibilities of the different DG-related roles and boards, while chapter 4 discusses the most common barriers to DG in practice. Chapter 5 summarizes the paradigm shifts in DG from control to value creation. Subsequently chapter 6 explores the needs, characteristics and key functionalities of DG tools, before this part ends with a chapter on maturity models for data governance. Part II on “Data Governance Applied” consists of five chapters which review the situation of DG in different sectors and industries. Details about DG in the banking sector, public administration, insurance companies, healthcare and telecommunications each are presented in one chapter. The book is aimed at academics, researchers and practitioners (especially CIOs, Data Governors, or Data Stewards) involved in DG. It can also serve as a reference for courses on data governance in information systems.