Data Governance For Dummies

Chapter 13

Responding to Data Governance Challenges and Risks

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding the factors that make data governance hard

Exploring ways to succeed by leveraging a receptive environment

Sustaining a flexible and quality data governance program

Anticipating and preparing for the future of data governance

There’s a lot about data governance that makes it a difficult program to design, develop, deploy, and maintain. It’s a topic that many stakeholders are not familiar with and so you will spend some time explaining it to them and making the business case. Some will get it right away, but others will struggle, and with a small number, you’ll experience outright resistance the whole time.

At the same time, most leaders and team members, when they take the time to consider it, do understand why data is an increasingly important topic for every organization. Given the right context, they may conclude that data governance is so obvious and urgent, that not hurrying to formalize it is a disservice to the business. This is the world in which you’ll be operating as a data governance ...