Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up

Fill Your Council with the Right People

Data stewards don’t need to be hired from elsewhere; that is one of their biggest benefits. Unlike data scientists, who are often expensively recruited, data stewards are already part of your business. As a result, they bring deep knowledge of your tech stack, strategy, and customer pain points to their daily work. Data stewards aren’t just nice to have, nor should they replace trained data scientists. They bring their own unique value to your business and are equally essential.

This bears repeating since it’s no longer enough for one employee to own all data-based decisions—or for your business to avoid investing in the tools, training, and employees who can take your data usage to the next level. Achieving ...