You're reading from Data Management Strategy at Microsoft Best practices from a tech giant's decade-long data transformation journey

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835469187

Length 270 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Data Governance

Author (1):

Aleksejs Plotnikovs

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Thinking Local, Acting Global FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Where’s My Data and Who’s in Charge?

3. Chapter 2: We Make Data Business Ready

4. Chapter 3: Thousands to One – From Locally Siloed to Globally Centralized Processes

5. Chapter 4: “Reactive! Proactive? Predictive”

6. Part 2: Build Insights to Global Capabilities

7. Chapter 5: Mastering Your Data Domains and Business Ownership

8. Chapter 6: Navigating the Strategic Data Dilemma

9. Chapter 7: Unique Data IP Is Your Magic

10. Chapter 8: The Pareto Principle in Action

11. Part 3: Intelligent Future

12. Chapter 9: Data Mastering and MDM

13. Chapter 10: Data Mesh and Data Governance

14. Chapter 11: Data Assets or Data Products?

15. Chapter 12: Data Value, Literacy, and Culture

16. Chapter 13: Getting Ready for GenAI

17. Index

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Summary and key takeaways

To summarize this chapter, if there are three things I would like you to take with you and hopefully reapply in your business, it would be these takeaways.

Takeaway #1 – define your IP, with six dimensions in mind

When defining your unique data IP, use the pivots of People, Process, and Technology across the three main areas of investment – Documentation, Outsourcing, and Community. Each of these areas represents the massive source of your unique IP, along with an even more accelerated momentum for the overall mesh and for the intersection between them.

The purpose is to define what your IP is – not for some abstract safeguarding, but to foster the continuous ability to grow it, enrich it, and innovate the business delivery.

Takeaway #2 – evolve, modernize, and govern

Your IP is never stale. Presuming you have already taken good steps to keep it fresh and up to date, the question arises of how to shift gears and significantly...