Data Stewardship, 2nd Edition

Introduction

Introduction

Companies are getting serious about managing their data, including improving Data Quality, understanding the meaning of the data, leveraging the data for competitive advantage, and treating data as the enterprise asset it should be. But doing a proper job of managing data requires accountability—that is, business functions must take responsibility for the data they own and use. The formal recognition of the need to have a structure, organization, and resources in place to manage data—and the actual implementation of that need—has come to be known as Data Governance. Within the umbrella of Data Governance is Data Stewardship. Various kinds of Data Stewards (detailed later in the book) work closely with the data as well ...