Chapter 8

Measuring Data Stewardship Progress

The Metrics

This chapter explains how to measure your progress in implementing Data Stewardship using two categories of measurement: Business results and operational metrics. Business results metrics measures improvements in managing data in terms of improvements in how the company does business because of better data management. Operational metrics measures the number and quality of direct Data Stewardship deliverables.

Keywords

metrics; measure; operational; business; value; results; critical success factors

Introduction

As you have seen in previous chapters, the Data Stewardship program requires resources and effort to be expended to improve how the enterprise understands and manages its data. It should ...

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