Data governance: Your key to digital success!

6 tips for practice

1. MAKE THE BENEFITS OF DATA VISIBLE IN YOUR COMPANY

Create a digitalization roadmap that shows how you use which data to support specific business initiatives. Find out which of the selected initiatives use the same data to optimize the data strategy. 


2.  KNOW THE MAIN BENEFICIARIES OF THE DATA

Identify specific applications and BI use cases that need to be supported and fed by the data. For effective use, take into account that there will be different requirements in terms of data timeliness and data protection. 


3.  MAKING DATA USEFUL FOR BUSINESS INITIATIVES 

Understand what makes data useful from a user perspective (!). For every business initiative. And then make sure the data meets these requirements to support the success of the initiatives. 


4.  DATA-GOVERNANCE AS PART OF CORPORATE PROCESSES

Seamlessly integrate the data governance program into the corporate "operating system". Make data planning and implementation a natural part of business processes.
 


5. EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS 

Enable data users to help themselves. Digitalization will only be sustainable if the use of data is simple and smooth and there are no central bottlenecks. The right tool, such as a data mesh, can play a decisive role here. 


6. SUPPORT FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

Only 5% of domestic companies currently use artificial intelligence. But almost all of them know that something big is coming. The good news is that by expanding their existing data governance program to include feature stores and ML models, they can effectively promote AI and ML. 














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