Data Governance

How to Design, Deploy, and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program

John Ladley

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780128158326
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Business Intelligence
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Forewords
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Prologue: An executive overview
• Chapter 2: Introduction
• Chapter 3: Data literacy and concepts
• Chapter 4: Overview: A day in the life of a data governance program and its capabilities
• Chapter 5: The data governance business case
• Chapter 6: Overview of data governance development and deployment
• Chapter 7: Engagement
• Chapter 8: Strategy
• Chapter 9: Architecture and design
• Chapter 10: Implementation
• Chapter 11: Operation and change
• Chapter 12: Final items and summary
• Appendix 1: Work areas, activities, and tasks
• Appendix 2: Change capacity assessment
• Appendix 3: Data governance charter template
• Appendix 4: Data governance orientation and on-going knowledge transfer template
• Appendix 5: Data governance capabilities and functions
• Appendix 6: Stakeholder analysis
• Appendix 7: Leadership alignment assessment
• Appendix 8: Communications plan
• Appendix 9: Training plan
• Appendix 10: Post-roll-out checklist
• Appendix 11: Sponsor guidelines
• Appendix 12: Leadership coaching
• Appendix 13: Resistance plan template
• Appendix 14: Guiding principles to policies alignment
• Appendix 15: Data governance program start-up plan
• Appendix 16: Sample data governance metrics
• Appendix 17: Phase activity task table from first edition
• Appendix 18: Executive level sample roadmap
• Index