Was können Sie tun, um in der Data Governance unverzichtbar zu werden?

Data Governance is Business Facing... More you are aligned with Business on Goals, Expectations, Pain Areas, more likely you to be a Go-To person they would reach to. Provided, you have good hands on knowledge of key Data Governance Areas like Data Linage, Business Glossary, Data Set Access and different roles. Business is looking for Trust worthy data and as long as you are providing means to achieve it, you would in good books!

Data Governance provides Technical Proficiency, in which we can Acquire technical skills related to data management, data quality, metadata management, and data security and help yourself with data governance tools and platforms. Also Collaboration and Relationship Building where we Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including IT teams, data owners, and business units and Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and enforce data governance policies.

Educating the executives/sponsors about data governance importance. If it's a protective or conservative sponsor, my suggestion to show to them how the lack of data governance could affect his goals. If it's a proactive or innovative sponsor, educating him how data quality, which is part of data governance could help his company to improve the services and products they offer.

Creating a comprehensive communication plan considering the method ADKAR (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement), target audience (executives, managers, others, etc), the demand description, goal of that communication, format, channel, frequency, content responsible, approver and engage the data governance council to priorize what should be communicated as well.

Creating a community of interest is one of the most effective ways to establish channels for communication. These communities can publish reoccurring newsletters, collaborate events or training material to spread the message to a wider audience.

To become indispensable in Data Governance you need to develop a toolset in different frameworks as DAMA, CMMI-DMM, FAIR, COBIT 2019, TOGAF 9.2, ISO 8000 and others to have a comprehensive set of paths to design a Data Governance program for different companies and segments. The most critical skill to be developed, based upon my experience are not related to tools or frameworks, but related commucation and interpersonal relationship. The ability to educate the others about data subjects, the ability to resolve conflicts, the ability to explain the value and benefits of data governance for all company levels it's being more valuable than gold in my opinion.

Artificial Intelligence is creeping into every organization across the globe. When organizational leaders fail to embrace these technologies or develop para masters to monitor and control their applications, progress is difficult. As a data governance professional you should become a subject matter expert in these new and emerging technologies to proactively create a framework for their inception.

Data governance requires a top down approach. In its infancy, a data governance program will often struggle due to lack of authority granted from an agency. This required professionals to ‘take it on the chin’ for months before real results begin to reveal themselves. These results will ultimately result in increased buy in from a wider group, culminating in a mature program.

To keep yourself impriving, I suggest to be part of some data governance and frameworks community could help you to keep up to date and always sharp in new approaches. I strongly recommend data governance institute community (DGI) and TOGAF community. To continuous improve your data governance program you can use the basic PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) approach, as other tools to learn and discover why the things are happening as RCA (Root Cause Analysis with 5 whys) or Ishikawa diagram as well. All of that will be much easier if you already set SMART metrics to your data governance program, to measure for example policies adoption, data quality improvements impacting the business, etc.

In one of my experiences, I learned how much important is the data governance (mainly the part that touches compliance) when I heard the term ROI, but at this time not Return of Investment, but as Risk of Incarceration. Sometimes to convince conservative executives you must present this kind of "ROI" to them.