Develop the ownership, stewardship, and operational structure needed to ensure that corporate data is managed as a critical asset and implemented in an e ective and sustainable manner.
Category: 01 Governance Management
Example Work Products
Goals
1. A process is established and followed for aligning data governance with business priorities, including ongoing evaluation and refinement to address changes in the business such as the need to encompass new functions and domains. 2. Data governance ensures that all relevant stakeholders are included, and that roles, responsibilities, and authorities are clearly defined and […]
Related Process Area
Data Lifecycle Management provides information about all business processes in the organization that require data management activities. This information is used to help identify the data governance management needs. Data Management Strategy provides guidance on development of data management priorities and strategy, which are used to help define the scope of data governance. Data Management […]
Core Questions
1. Does data governance provide mechanisms to facilitate collaboration and decision making across lines of business and IT functions? 2. Does the data governance structure clearly delineate defined responsibilities and accountability for data domains? 3. How does the organization define roles and responsibilities and ensure that all relevant stakeholders are involved? 4. Does data governance […]
Functional Practice
[tabby title=»Performed»] Level 1: Performed Data governance functions are performed. Governance often begins as project-based, aligned with development and operation of application data stores; for example, validation of logical and physical data models. Ownership, stewardship, and accountability for data sets are primarily project-based assignments. Example Work Products Governance process documentation Evidence of implemented governance processes […]
Introductory Notes
Efective data governance management provides oversight, ensures stakeholder collaboration, and facilitates decisions for critical data subject areas. Data governance management addresses three basic data governance functions supporting the organi- zation’s data assets: building, sustaining, and compliance. Building is the creation of new capabilities through the new or enhanced governance structures; sustaining consists of the processes […]