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I’ve noticed that Data Governance is being run out of the IT department of many companies. I’m okay with that for sure, but my word of caution is to not fall into the trap of being an “IT Project”. You can consider the project a business project, a cross functional project, a collaboration between business and IT… whatever is standard for your organization for this type of initiative - just don’t be lumped in with the “IT Projects”.

I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that designation, its just not right for Data Governance. Data Governance needs to be based on the premise that the business knows its data and the problems, and IT is helping facilitate by bringing these issues to the table to get them fixed. Being designated as an IT Project doesn’t help promote that cause. In people’s minds, when they hear IT Project they actually hear “Database fix, code change, system upgrade”. When they hear Business Project they think “increased income, reduce cost effort, new business, etc”.
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There are many ways in which you can introduce Data Governance into your organization. It may be easier in smaller organizations, tougher in larger organizations, complicated in global businesses, etc… But, no matter how you go about introducing it, remember this critical point for all your positioning, meetings, and messages: In order to succeed in getting data governance funded, started, or in keeping it alive you must either Make Money, Reduce Cost, or Mitigate Risk.

Making money can come in a number of ways. It can be from a sales perspective, where better data ensures your sales force is targeting the right customers or leads. From marketing, a good formula to look for may be, if we improve the quality of X, we can expect the response rate to improve by Y, which results in an increased income of Z.
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