Data Governance and Metadata Management: Better Together
Most organizations that struggle with data governance are also struggling with metadata management, even if they do not recognize the second problem. When analysts cannot
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Most organizations that struggle with data governance are also struggling with metadata management, even if they do not recognize the second problem. When analysts cannot
Ask a Sales lead and a Finance analyst to define revenue, and you will almost certainly get two different answers. Ask five departments what a
Most organizations with a data governance problem have plenty of governance activity. They have working groups, steering committees, data quality initiatives, and cataloging projects. What
Data governance and data stewardship are used interchangeably in most organizations. That imprecision is one of the most common reasons data governance initiatives fail to
Most organizations that invest in data governance do not fail because they chose the wrong tool or the wrong framework. They fail because governance was
One in five patients have errors in their own medical records, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. (Source: Wolosin, R. et al., “Patient
47% of digital workers struggle to find the information or data they need to do their jobs effectively, according to Gartner. (Source: Gartner, “How Data
Every organization that depends on data needs a structured way to manage it. Without one, data quality degrades, compliance risk grows, and teams spend more
Most data governance programs fail for a simple reason. They lack sequence. Organizations try to govern everything at once. They assign ownership without authority. They

Only 2 of 31 Global Systemically Important Banks are fully compliant with BCBS 239 more than ten years after the framework was published. That statistic,