Data Governance Assessment and Strategy

Your Situation and Challenges

Situation

The amount of data in organizations is growing at an exponential rate, so they need to take a formal approach to govern data. But a lot of organizations still don't know how to govern their data well.

Comprehensive data governance should define who is in charge, who is accountable, and who is responsible for how data is used and handled. It should also have a well-oiled operating model and relevant policies and procedures to back it up.

This will help make sure that the right information gets to the right people at the right time and through the right channels.

Organizations face problems like changing data landscapes, changing business models, disruptions in the industry, regulatory and compliance obligations, and changing and growing user landscapes and data demand.

Even though the need for a data governance program is often clear, organizations miss the mark when their data governance efforts are not directly tied to delivering measurable business value. Initiatives should support strategic key initiatives as well as value streams and the business capabilities that support them.

Challenges

Insight

Incept's plan for setting up and keeping up effective data governance is based on making sure that organizational value streams and their business capabilities are well aligned with key data governance dimensions and initiatives. Organizations should align their data governance with their enterprise governance, business strategy, and value streams to make sure the program delivers measurable business value.

  • Learn about their current data governance capabilities so that they can build a future state that is just right and impactful.

  • Explain what data leadership, data accountabilities, and data responsibilities are. Support these with an operating model that handles change and communication well and promotes a data excellence culture.

Essential for any organization that makes decisions about how it uses its data

Data governance is an enabling framework of decision rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities for data assets across the enterprise. Data governance is essential for any organization that makes decisions about how it uses its data.

Two Options To Get Our Help In Devising Your Data Governance

  • You are responsible to carry out your Data Governance Assessment and Strategy. We provide the structure, framework, templates, and a set of calls to accompany and advise you.

    Each call will focus on explaining the material and helping you to plan your Data Governance Assessment and Strategy, interpret and analyze the results of each step, and set the direction for your next activity.

  • Incept is responsible for the delivery of your Data Governance Assessment and Strategy

    A consulting team will be assigned to your Data Governance Strategy project. We will lead and deliver your Data Governance Assessment and Strategy, involving your team at every step.

Establish Business Context and Value

  • Establish business context, value, and scope of data governance at the organization

  • Introduction to Incept’s data governance framework

  • Discuss vision and mission for data governance

  • Understand your business architecture, including your business capability map and value streams

  • Build use cases aligned to core business capabilities

Understand Current Data Governance Capabilities and Plot Target-State Levels

  • Understand your current data governance capabilities and maturity

  • Set target-state data governance capabilities

  • Evaluate and prioritize performance gaps

  • Develop and consolidate data governance target-state initiatives

  • Define the role of data governance: data domain to data governance roles mapping

Formulate a Plan to Get to Your Target State

  • Identify and prioritize next steps

  • Define roles and responsibilities and complete a high-level RACI. Recommendations on culture and teaming.

  • Align initiatives on a roadmap, with assumptions, risks, and cost-complexity/benefit priorities

  • Let us help you more effectively manage the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data in systems, based on your current gaps, internal data standards, and policies that also control data usage. Effective data governance ensures that data is consistent and trustworthy and doesn't get misused.

How We Do It

 Documents Included

  • [PowerPoint] 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.

  • [PowerPoint] This workbook will help your organization understand the business and user context by leveraging your business capability map and value streams, developing data use cases using Info-Tech's framework for building data use cases, and gauging the current state of your organization's data culture.

  • [PowerPoint] 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.

  • [Excel] This tool will help your organization plan the sequence of activities, capture start dates and expected completion dates, and create a roadmap that can effectively communicate to the organization.

  • [Word] We 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.

  • [Word] 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.

  • [Word]

    Data Governance Policy - APAC

    Data Classification Policy, Standard, and Procedure - APAC

    Data Quality Policy, Standard, and Procedure - APAC

    Data Management Definitions - APAC

    Metadata Management Policy, Standard, and Procedure - APAC

    Data Retention Policy and Procedure - APAC

Contact us.

Avoid the pitfalls of a Data Governance initiative that is not aligned with business value, not in harmony with your culture and technology, or that doesn’t leverage the learning from the many client experiences we benefit from. Team Incept’s experience will help you review and modernize Data Governance so that you can trust that data is consistent and trustworthy and doesn't get misused.