Posts tagged: simple data governance

Data Governance Responsibility and Accountablity: The RACI Waterfall

In the course of a great conversation on Data Governance with Max Gano of Stakeholder Care, we began discussing the application of controls. Max had some great thinking on how they fit into the realm of Data Governance. The conversation reminded me of a RACI Waterfall that I had created a few years back. The [...]

Friday January 21st, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Confusing What’s Urgent with What’s Important

Recently an acquaintance summed up data governance as “trying to do what is important, while be sidetracked by what is urgent.” To me this was an interesting observation, because it sums up a paradox associated with data governance. Resolving urgent data quality issues uses so many resources, there are often none left to implement the [...]

Monday December 7th, 2009 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Minimizing What is Governed – Shortening the Path to Action

Recently I was booking air travel and some of the options struck me as odd routes. You know, going to your destination with two lay-over’s and a plane change. Oh and it takes about twice as long as a direct flight while the difference in price is minimal. So if we would not book our [...]

Tuesday July 21st, 2009 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Practical Data Governance – Getting to Action

Four Steps to Action Two things many of my readers are searching for are a good definition for data steward, and a practical path to actionable data governance. This entry addresses the latter. While there is no silver bullet, here are four steps you can take after you get your senior management support.

Thursday July 9th, 2009 in , , , , , | No Comments »

How to Govern Data – A Simple Method to Implement Governance

Some time ago, while working with a large data warehouse, I formulated a simple method to govern data. The method was introduced as part of our Basel II work and was required by our Basel II Risk Management Policy. Subsequently as we were validating our plans for a data governance program, it was reviewed and [...]

Friday June 12th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Where to Govern Data – Control Points in Information Flows

My last entry suggested that data governance is not a new problem. While exploring data governance, we are revisiting the issues encountered as society built out roads, and developed modern manufacturing processes. The only difference is what we are governing this time is data content instead of a physical thing. With that in mind, it [...]

Tuesday June 9th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

5 Simple Criteria to Determine What to Govern

With increasing frequency, people are asking, “what is a simple solution to data governance?” They, and likely you, are looking a silver bullet to bring order out of chaos. The ironic part of the problem is that it is not a new problem; rather it is an old recurring problem with a new name. What [...]

Wednesday May 27th, 2009 in , , , , | No Comments »

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