Lack of effective data governance is typically manifested by lack of ownership and accountability, lack of education on the impact and importance of data accuracy, and limited experience of data-driven decision making.
This results in data not being readily available, or stakeholders not knowing where to find it, data existing in ‘protected’ silos, and a lack of common business understanding of the data in the organisation.
An effective and pragmatic data governance implementation addresses these challenges and helps the organisation truly leverage data and unlock the strategic value of data.
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How can Adatis help?
The Adatis Strategy and Advisory framework extended to cover data governance by performing:
The Data Governance Framework forms part of the larger Data Management Framework and ensures that proper authority is exercised over the management of data assets in the organisation. The context of data governance is highlighted by the yellow components in the accompanying diagram. The Data Governance Framework is made up of a the following components:
- Artefacts as highlighted in the framework overview (e.g. data quality rules)
- Processes
- Roles
- Responsibilities
- Organisational structures
- Appropriate technology solutions
Data governance will be aligned to corporate governance and will leverage the existing structures, processes, role, etc. already in place.
Benefits
Correctly governed data can help the organisation realise a number of benefits such as:
- Improved control and risk management
- Improved efficiency in information delivery
- Increased trust in information and data
- Driving data integrity back to source systems
- Improved information management planning
- Elimination of duplicate effort
- Reduction in information delivery costs
- Improved speed of access to information
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