Data Governance

Acknowledgments

In the preface, the pronoun “I” is used, but you will notice that in the rest of the book I use “we.” This is because I was not the only person doing all of this work over the last 20 years! A lot of battlefield experience is contained in this book—and the people in the trenches with me contributed immensely.

My co-workers and partners in information management and data governance are, or were, Val Torstenson, Ellen Levin, Larry Michael, Richard Lee, John Lee, Donn Vucovich, and Jim Hankemeyer. I must also thank Pam Thomas for educating me as to the finer points of organizational change management as a critical piece of successful information management work. Those behavior changes I referenced in the preface do not happen by ...