Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. An Outlook on Data Ownership Data Ownership is often not a full-time job for most data owners while it can be a full-time profession for Data Stewards. While most banks have traversed in maturity across their Data Governance function, relatively only some Banks, started enabling themselves with required […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
The CDO Office: When to Do It and How
Two questions align when it comes to the Chief Data Officer (CDO): How do you know your business is ready to have one? And if it is, how do you quickly get a CDO shop in shape? Thomas Redman, The Data Doc who helps companies improve Data Quality, took up the first question during the […]
Data Governance Best Practices: Five Industry Experts Discuss Their Viewpoints
At the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference, a panel of Data Governance and Data Management industry experts shared their wisdom, offering tips, ideas, and best practices. The panel discussion was titled “You CAN Be Successful in Data Governance Best Practice Tips and Takeaways.” The transcript below is a selection of some of the highlights of […]
It’s Time for Data Governance 2.0 with erwin DG
The erwin, Inc. premiere of erwin DG at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Summit 2017 marks a new approach to tackling the practice of discovering, understanding, governing and socializing data. That strategy, dubbed Data Governance 2.0, puts the focus on making Data Governance everyone’s business, in order to fully leverage data for strategic advantage and remove […]
Case Study: Three Strategies for Data Governance Success
“How do we measure the quality of our health care?” asked Laura Tellmann, Healthcare Informatics Executive at BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, speaking at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference. She shared a photo of a young boy who had survived a brain tumor and post-surgery stroke, as a reminder that the quality of the […]
Do You Want to Know the Three Killer Questions to Find a Data Owner?
Click to learn more about author Suriya Subramanian. A good Data Governance framework should answer the following basic questions relating to data: What is the process of managing data in the firm? (process, controls, structure) Who is going to manage data? How data is managed in the firm? What happens if there are breaches to Data […]
Strategic Data Stewardship: Operationalizing Data Governance
According to Fawad Butt, many companies spend a lot of time and energy building a Data Governance and Data Stewardship Program by putting, policies, procedure, and tools into place, yet, “At the end of the day, the real operationalization work of Data Governance tends to happen through Data Stewards.” To do that well, stewards need […]
Data Governance Program Success: Vanguard and the DGPO Best Practices Award
“You can start a Data Governance Program well,” said Michele Koch, the VP of Membership at the Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview about the finalists of the 2017 DGPO Best Practices Award. “It’s sustaining the program that is very hard to do.” The three finalists for the 2017 DGPO Best […]
Case Study: Five Components to a Successful Data Stewardship Program
The Ministry of Children and Youth Services for Government of Ontario, Canada, provides services to 17 million children and youth across an area the size of Montana and Texas combined. The Ministry collects a great deal of data about those services, the children and youth who access them: “Like many organizations, we’ve struggled with inventorying, […]