- Organizations are faced with challenges associated with changing data landscapes, evolving business models, industry disruptions, regulatory and compliance obligations, as well as changing and maturing user landscapes and demands for data.
- Although the need for a data governance program is often evident, organizations often miss the mark.
- Your data governance efforts should be directly aligned to delivering measurable business value by supporting key strategic initiatives, value streams, and underlying business capabilities.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Your organization’s value streams and their associated business capabilities require effectively governed data. Without this, you may experience elevated operational costs, missed opportunities, eroded stakeholder satisfaction, and exposure to increased business risk.
- Ensure your data governance program delivers measurable business value by aligning the associated data governance initiatives with the business architecture.
- Data governance must continuously align with the organization’s enterprise governance function. It should not be perceived as a pet project of IT, but rather as an enterprise-wide, business-driven initiative.
Impact and Result
Info-Tech’s approach to establishing and sustaining effective data governance is anchored in the strong alignment of organizational value streams and their business capabilities with key data governance dimensions and initiatives. Info-Tech's approach will help you:
- Align your data governance with enterprise governance, business strategy, and the organizational value streams to ensure the program delivers measurable business value.
- Understand your current data governance capabilities and build out a future state that is right-sized and relevant.
- Define data governance leadership, accountability, and responsibility.
- Ensure data governance is supported by an operating model that effectively manages change and communication and fosters a culture of data excellence.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.3/10
Overall Impact
$91,330
Average $ Saved
35
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC)
Guided Implementation
10/10
$34,250
10
City of Eugene
Workshop
10/10
$32,195
50
Areez is an amazing facilitator and is able to gather a group of disparate people from different parts of the organization together and bring focus... Read More
Educational Computing Network of Ontario (ECNO)
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
N/A
The practical exercise at the end was very well received.
Natco Home Group
Guided Implementation
10/10
$15,755
5
Wayne appears to be a very strong resource in terms of data governance and data classification. I look forward to working with him more.
Feed The Children, Inc.
Workshop
10/10
N/A
N/A
The Data Governance workshop was exceptionally well-structured, offering a balanced approach that combined an overview of Data Governance principle... Read More
Bob Barker Company, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$13,700
3
Innovation Care Partners
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
95
Thank Usman Lakhani your experience, knowledge and open mind toward current status /use case help me and my team in how to move forward to impleme... Read More
University of Montana
Guided Implementation
8/10
N/A
2
Being able to hear experiences from other institutions the Info-Tech team has worked with was valuable.
Oregon Department of Justice
Guided Implementation
8/10
$13,700
20
Best part is the sounding board as we work through our problems and the flexibility to work on what we need help with vs. being beholden to the blu... Read More
City of Tucson Information Technology Department Office of the Deputy Director
Guided Implementation
10/10
$137K
20
Data Meaning Services Group Inc
Guided Implementation
10/10
$13,700
18
Working with your team is the best experience!
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,000
2
Best was the new content available that was practical and applicable to our current situation. Worse part was just that we had many more possible ... Read More
D&I Associates Ltd
Guided Implementation
8/10
$171K
50
+ve : Flexibility for timeslot/connection; Good opening session to set context; Good two-way dialogue; sharing of framework/model to highlight an a... Read More
University of Cincinnati
Guided Implementation
10/10
$137K
20
Loeb & Loeb, LLP
Guided Implementation
4/10
N/A
N/A
The meeting with Usman was helpful from the perspective of gaining consensus of our approach. However, we didn't gain anything net new from the cal... Read More
Lifeway Christian Resources
Guided Implementation
9/10
$34,250
23
Waterloo Region District School Board
Workshop
10/10
N/A
N/A
* note - unable to determine time/financial impact at this time Fantastic facilitation - excellent engagement with our team - applicable templat... Read More
Natco Home Group
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Great discussion with Usman Lakhani regarding data conference and also data classification. Not sure of the hours and dollars impacted yet, but I ... Read More
Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc.
Workshop
10/10
$200K
20
Paul was an amazing facilitator, it was clear that he understands and is passionate about data & data governance. The take-away materials are very ... Read More
Central California Alliance for Health
Guided Implementation
10/10
$274K
100
Crystal's knowledge and experience were clear. She was able to galvanize the teams and to clarify what data governance is all about and why we nee... Read More
Central California Alliance for Health
Workshop
10/10
$137K
120
Crystal was great. She was able to cover a large amount of material in a limited amount of time. Crystal was able to level set the entire team a... Read More
Feed The Children, Inc.
Workshop
10/10
N/A
N/A
Paul did a great job of facilitating the workshop and keeping all participants engaged on a topic that the collective group had very little knowled... Read More
Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
Guided Implementation
8/10
$12,330
20
Milwaukee County Department of Administrative Services – Information Management Division (DAS-IMSD)
Workshop
10/10
$68,500
120
Igor was able to adapt to our specific needs without compromising the effectiveness of the workshop. This workshop has supported our team in moving... Read More
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
Workshop
10/10
$548K
50
The best was having a partner marching through this process to see how it all connects together. four days was a lot. But there was a lot of ground... Read More
California Department of Social Services
Workshop
10/10
$137K
65
Paul did a fantastic job facilitating our conversation and helping us identify our vision, missions, and roadmap for moving forward with our data g... Read More
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
The tools and explanations were very helpful. We appreciated the conversations where you listened and adapted and advised based on our specific needs.
Oregon Parks And Recreation Department
Guided Implementation
9/10
$2,740
5
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, a Massachusetts nonprofit corporation, acting by and through Harvard Business School
Workshop
9/10
$411K
100
From pre-planning, until the last day of the workshop, it felt as if InfoTech was a true partner with us. Paul was terrific at letting the ener... Read More
BC Energy Regulator
Workshop
9/10
N/A
20
It was excellent to have the facilitated process with the right people in the room to develop a shared understanding of different aspects of the da... Read More
Workshop: Establish Data Governance
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Establish Business Context and Value
The Purpose
- Identify key business data assets that need to be governed.
- Create a unifying vision for the data governance program.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand the value of data governance and how it can help the organization better leverage its data.
- Gain knowledge of how data governance can benefit both IT and the business.
Activities
Outputs
Establish business context, value, and scope of data governance at the organization
Introduction to Info-Tech’s data governance framework
Discuss vision and mission for data governance
Understand your business architecture, including your business capability map and value streams
Build use cases aligned to core business capabilities
- Sample use cases (tied to the business capability map) and a repeatable use case framework
- Vision and mission for data governance
Module 2: Understand Current Data Governance Capabilities and Plot Target-State Levels
The Purpose
- Assess which data contains value and/or risk and determine metrics that will determine how valuable the data is to the organization.
- Assess where the organization currently stands in data governance initiatives.
- Determine gaps between the current and future states of the data governance program.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Gain a holistic understanding of organizational data and how it flows through business units and systems.
- Identify which data should fall under the governance umbrella.
- Determine a practical starting point for the program.
Activities
Outputs
Understand your current data governance capabilities and maturity
- Current state of data governance maturity
Set target-state data governance capabilities
- Definition of target state
Module 3: Build Data Domain to Data Governance Role Mapping
The Purpose
- Determine strategic initiatives and create a roadmap outlining key steps required to get the organization to start enabling data-driven insights.
- Determine timing of the initiatives.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish clear direction for the data governance program.
- Step-by-step outline of how to create effective data governance, with true business-IT collaboration.
Activities
Outputs
Evaluate and prioritize performance gaps
Develop and consolidate data governance target-state initiatives
- Target-state data governance initiatives
Define the role of data governance: data domain to data governance role mapping
- Data domain to data governance role mapping
Module 4: Formulate a Plan to Get to Your Target State
The Purpose
- Consolidate the roadmap and other strategies to determine the plan of action from Day One.
- Create the required policies, procedures, and positions for data governance to be sustainable and effective.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Prioritized initiatives with dependencies mapped out.
- A clearly communicated plan for data governance that will have full business backing.
Activities
Outputs
Identify and prioritize next steps
- Initialized roadmap
Define roles and responsibilities and complete a high-level RACI
- Initialized RACI
Wrap-up and discuss next steps and post-workshop support