Summary

Data stewardship is the keystone to enabling data governance in your organization. Data stewardship can help you to manage, use, and innovate with your data assets in a responsible and effective way. To start a data stewardship program, it is critical to first define your starting point and desired endpoint. This helps in outlining the program’ s journey. Next, securing the approval and support of key stakeholders is essential to the success of the program. To manage the tasks efficiently, a prioritization matrix is constructed to help in decision-making. Lastly, an assessment of data maturity is conducted to understand the organization’ s current data management capabilities, which in turn guides the progression of the stewardship program. Data stewardship is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but a tailored approach that depends on your organization’ s needs and context. You need to adapt and improve your data stewardship program over time to keep up with...