Comments on: Crushing the Data Governance Challenge http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/information-strategy/data-governance-in-practice/ Realizing value from information Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bill Abbott http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/information-strategy/data-governance-in-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Bill Abbott Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:39:13 +0000 http://informationadvantage.diamondconsultants.com/?p=5#comment-390 Kevin: Thanks for the reply here. Your point is well taken and a useful addition to the discussion. Kevin: Thanks for the reply here. Your point is well taken and a useful addition to the discussion.

]]> By: Kevin Davis http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/information-strategy/data-governance-in-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Kevin Davis Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:34:19 +0000 http://informationadvantage.diamondconsultants.com/?p=5#comment-387 Scott and Bill, While I agree with all that you state, one additional item I have seen work is to make sure data governance is incorporated in the development lifecycle. For instance, in order to get data from one of the MDM domains, it has to be approved by the data governance council and specifically the business owner of the data in the domain in question. It is a good practice to have a single business unit own a domain, the data itself and what it does, means, etc. while IT owns the systems and processes to make sure the data is reliable and available. Quality is everyone's job. Just my two cents. Thanks Kevin Scott and Bill,
While I agree with all that you state, one additional item I have seen work is to make sure data governance is incorporated in the development lifecycle. For instance, in order to get data from one of the MDM domains, it has to be approved by the data governance council and specifically the business owner of the data in the domain in question. It is a good practice to have a single business unit own a domain, the data itself and what it does, means, etc. while IT owns the systems and processes to make sure the data is reliable and available. Quality is everyone’s job.
Just my two cents.
Thanks
Kevin

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