Non-Invasive Data Governance

Chapter 4 Planning Your Data Governance Program

Several years ago, I worked with a client in the United States and Europe to develop a set of core principles associated with data governance. The principles we arrived at represent a finite and simplified view of what his organization set out to accomplish by deploying a formal data governance program.

Our intent and hope was that we would get the highest level of the client’s organization to agree that these principles were important and that his company needed to accomplish what the principles stated. We also looked forward to senior management’s signing a policy statement, the ...