Blueprint Contents:
1. Data Governance Research – A step-by-step document to ensure that the people handling the data are involved in the decisions surrounding data usage, data quality, business processes, and change implementation.
Data governance is a strategic program that will help your organization control data by managing the people, processes, and information technology needed to ensure that accurate and consistent data policies exist across varying lines of the business, enabling data-driven insight. This research will provide an overview of data governance and its importance to your organization, assist in making the case and securing buy-in for data governance, identify data governance best practices and the challenges associated with them, and provide guidance on how to implement data governance best practices for a successful launch.
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Establish Data Governance – Phases 1-3
2. Data Governance Planning and Roadmapping Workbook – A structured tool to assist with establishing effective data governance practices.
This workbook will help your organization understand the business and user context by leveraging your business capability map and value streams, develop data use cases using Info-Tech's framework for building data use cases, and gauge the current state of your organization's data culture.
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Data Governance Planning and Roadmapping Workbook
3. Data Use Case Framework Template – An exemplar template to highlight and create relevant use cases around the organization’s data-related problems and opportunities.
This business needs gathering activity will highlight and create relevant use cases around data-related problems or opportunities that are clear and contained and, if addressed, will deliver value to the organization. This template provides a framework for data requirements and a mapping methodology for creating use cases.
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Data Use Case Framework Template
4. Data Governance Initiative Planning and Roadmap Tool – A visual roadmapping tool to assist with establishing effective data governance practices.
This tool will help your organization plan the sequence of activities, capture start dates and expected completion dates, and create a roadmap that can be effectively communicated to the organization.
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Data Governance Initiative Planning and Roadmap Tool
5. Business Data Catalog – A comprehensive template to help you to document the key data assets that are to be governed based on in-depth business unit interviews, data risk/value assessments, and a data flow diagram for the organization.
Use this template to document information about key data assets such as data definition, source system, possible values, data sensitivity, data steward, and usage of the data.
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Business Data Catalog
6. Data Governance Program Charter Template – A program charter template to sell the importance of data governance to senior executives.
This template will help get the backing required to get a data governance project rolling. The program charter will help communicate the project purpose, define the scope, and identify the project team, roles, and responsibilities.
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Data Governance Program Charter Template
7. Data Governance Policy
This policy establishes uniform data governance standards and identifies the shared responsibilities for assuring the integrity of the data and that it efficiently and effectively serves the needs of your organization.
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Data Governance Policy
8. Data Governance Exemplar – An exemplar showing how you can plan and document your data governance outputs.
Use this exemplar to understand how to establish data governance in your organization. Follow along with the sections of the blueprint Establish Data Governance and complete the document as you progress.
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Data Governance Exemplar
Your Challenge
- 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
$93,410
Average $ Saved
34
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Utah Transit Authority
Guided Implementation
9/10
$34,250
10
Greate discussion around governance and look forward continued help.
Natco Home Group
Guided Implementation
10/10
$37,675
5
University Of North Dakota
Workshop
9/10
$68,500
20
It was a productive workshop and we all felt that we have something to go by now to get started on our data governance journey. thnx!
Medcan
Guided Implementation
9/10
$5,000
5
Denver Water
Workshop
10/10
N/A
N/A
The workshop was great. We have a lot of work ahead of us and will probably require more assistance in the long term.
Workers Federal Credit Union
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
N/A
Our organization is in the early stages of implementing Data Governance, and the context and framework provided by InfoTech, especially the additio... Read More
Physicians Mutual Insurance Company
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
N/A
Usman was helpful and personable.
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
