Data Governance = Data Excellence

Let’s dive into the topic of data governance, which is crucial for data teams. However, it’s quite common for data teams to struggle to showcase Data Governance as an enabler of insights to business teams. This is primarily due to the shift in Data Governance toward business ownership rather than remaining under the exclusive domain of the data team.

This shift, right from its onset, tends to create friction.

The prevailing perception within businesses is that Data Governance is only necessary for existing data issues. Thus, it’s often seen as a problem stemming from the data team’s failure to pre-emptively rectify data problems before they become a business need.

There’s some validity to this viewpoint. Ideally, in a world where data is always of high quality, complying with all policies and captured perfectly at the source, Data Governance would function more as a guide than an enforcer.

Governance is...