Over the past few months, I’ve helped several of my clients define their data governance strategies. Let’s start with a big picture, deep dive into current state:
- Is our operating model adequate? Do we even know what our operating model is?
- Are our processes adequate?
- How much is our organizational structure supporting or inhibiting our growth?
- Is the data architecture adequate?
- Are we properly leveraging and empowering our people?
- Do we have the right analytic capabilities?
- Are our data pipelines optimized?
- How are we measuring and monitoring?
When brainstorming strategy, my clients will often interchange data quality and data governance as if they mean the same thing.
But data quality is a separate and distinct component of governance requiring its own framework, while data governance is the organizational and process umbrella under which data and data quality are managed and enforced.
Data governance establishes the foundational framework upon which data quality (and lineage, and analytics, and observability, and privacy, and discoverability, and accessibility) will thrive and succeed.
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