Data Governance is the process by which companies govern the appropriate use and access to their critical data, by optimising, measuring and mitigating operational and security risks associated with access to data.

Data and information are critical assets of any organization, and should be considered as valuable a resource as buildings, employees and products. For a company to gain a significant competitive advantage, it must focus on managing and using its data securely and effectively.

For those chosen to manage data in any capacity, an understanding of data governance and a thorough grounding in the concepts and activities of data governance are essential to success.

This course combines an overview of enterprise data governance with practical and proven practices and techniques used to ensure successful data governance and ownership strategies..

Topics Covered

• Policy, Standards, Strategy for data governance
• Data Quality: Set direction for Data Quality; Reconcile gaps, overlaps, and inconsistencies in Data Quality rules; Monitor Data Quality; Report status for quality-focused initiatives
• Privacy, Compliance, Security: Align governance, compliance, security, and technology frameworks and initiatives; Help enforce regulatory, contractual, architectural compliance requirements; Support Access Management and Security requirements
• Architecture Integration, Analysis
• Management Alignment: Measure the value of data and data-related efforts; Align frameworks and initiatives; Identify stakeholders, establish decision rights, clarify accountabilities; Establish rules for data usage and data definitions.

Benefits to your organisation

Through the chain of accountability, data governance and stewardship increases the confidence the organization has in the data it manages and the use of that data for accurate decision-making.

Making decisions based upon timely and accurate data can enable an organization to realize both tangible and intangible benefits for increased value throughout the enterprise.

Organisations that understand and implement strongly data governance processes are able to embed these processes into the overall strategy leading to a reduction in cost, increased revenue, enhanced compliance and the release of working capital.

Who is this course for?

• Business professionals interested in the field of data and information
• Information technology and security professionals
• Data Owners and those responsible for regulatory reporting
• Internal and independent auditors
• Data Governance Professionals.

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Explicitly define data strategies for their organisations and explore the vital importance of data.
• The economics of data: understand the true costs of poor quality data and the tangible benefits of getting it right
• Evaluate the case for a corporate data quality strategy in your organisation and discover what you need to sell the principle in at board level
• Discover how to begin implementing a Data Quality strategy across the organisation. See the pitfalls and learn from those who are succeeding