Data Governance

Data Governance, Second Edition, is for any executive, manager or data professional who needs to implement a data governance program, to ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their organization. The problem of managing data continues to grow with issues surrounding the cost of storage, exponential growth, as well as administrative, management and security concerns - the solution to being able to scale all of these issues up is data governance which provides better services to users and saves money. This book offers an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable. This valuable resource provides comprehensive guidance to beginning professionals, managers or analysts looking to improve their processes, and advanced students in Data Management and related courses. With the provided framework and case studies all professionals in the data governance field will gain key insights into launching successful and money-saving data governance programmes. This valuable resource provides comprehensive guidance to beginning professionals, managers or analysts looking to improve their processes, and advanced students in Data Management and related courses.

• Provides comprehensive guidance to beginning professionals, executives, managers or analysts looking to improve their processes, and advanced students in Data Management and related courses
• Provides a complete overview of data governance creation and operation
• Includes new case studies which detail real-world situations across industry types
• Explores all of the capabilities business must adopt to become data driven
• Provides guidance on various approaches to data governance, so you can determine if you should be low profile, central controlled, agile, or traditional
• Provides guidance on using technology and separating vendor hype from sincere delivery of necessary capabilities
• Explores various ways in which data analysts and data managers can ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their companies, hospitals, laboratories, etc.
• Offers readers insights into how their organizations can improve the value of their data, through data quality, data strategy and data literacy
• Incorporates industry changes, lessons learned and new approaches
• Provides up to 75% brand-new content compared to the first edition