White Papers: data governance

Creating a framework to ensure the confidentiality, quality, and integrity of data – the core meaning of data governance – is essential to meet both internal and external requirements, such as financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and privacy policies. At its best, data governance roots out risk – both business and compliance risk – by increasing oversight. This white paper provides seven steps for taking such an approach, concluding with a real world example, taking an incremental approach using a repeatable framework that is a practical, proven strategy that any size organization can implement to suit their immediate and long-term needs and budget.

Responsible leaders look for opportunities to contain costs. This paper outlines seven ways that data governance & stewardship programs can help manage costs and a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for those contributions.