Data Governance

I got an email after my post on Tuesday about working with your Data Modelers. It was from a guy who works at a mid-size company that runs pretty lean, meaning he doesn’t have much support from the IT staff because they are busy on other projects. He said he didn’t have data modeling tools at his disposal, so how can he track his Data Governance Program for the long-term?

I thought about this for a while. I’m so used to a large corporation where there are lots of tools and resources available (although they aren’t waiting for you to ask them to do something) so I had to think about this one for a bit…. What would I do if I was in his situation?
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I recently updated the Wikipedia Data Governance listing to display “Maximize the income generation potential of data” as one of the key reasons a company undertakes Data Governance. The other items they had listed, before my update, were to:

- Increase consistency & confidence in decision making
- Decrease the risk of regulatory fines
- Improve data security
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