Data Automation for Impact and More Powerful Results

Traditional data governance processes can feel like a program that is separate from the business. With the pace of today’s modern business models, governance must be embedded into the process, and that requires a new way of thinking about data governance. In modern data governance teams, there is a shift away from too much committee work, with more emphasis placed on embedding data governance into processes by design. I refer to this newer model of governance as data governance by design.

This newer way of thinking requires data governance professionals to think and act differently when it comes to governance activities. Data governance by design requires professionals to think about how to embed data governance capabilities into a business process from the start, not alongside it after it has been built. The longer I have spent in the business of data, the more I see the demands of data increasing at a pace that does not...