The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

© Martin Treder 2020

M. TrederThe Chief Data Officer Management Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_15

15. Psychology of Governance

Martin Treder¹ 

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The data may well be on your side – but that might not be enough!

Don’t claim covered ground

Proper data governance is indispensable. But does it need to be “governance invented by the CDO”?

People will have difficulties accepting a policy that replaces a previous one that has seemingly worked well.

So why should you want to change such a policy?

If you incorporate existing policies into your overall data governance framework, you can win ...