Let's try to understand the fundamentals of data governance:
- Accountability
- Standardization
- Transparency
Transparency ensures that all the employees within an organization and outside the organization understand their role when interacting with the data that is related to the organization. This will ensure the following things:
- Building trust
- Avoiding surprises
Accountability makes sure that teams and employees who have access to data describe what they can do and cannot do with the data.
Standardization deals with how the data is properly labeled, describe, and categorized. One example is how to generate email address to the employees within the organization. One way is to use firstname-lastname@company.com ...
