eLearningCurve

Corporate data and information require governance. Without governance the promised benefits of information assets cannot occur. Most of the burden for data governance success falls on business users of information. Business personnel must learn to be stewards, owners, and change agents while still accomplishing their day-to-day responsibilities. Many information management and governance initiatives originate in business areas, but the realities of sustaining governance need to be fully understood before real change occurs. A solid business case, ongoing measures, and changing old data habits are essential to long-term success.

This course covers basic governance concepts that business participants need to understand and describes the steps that they can take to make governance a successful business initiative.

• build a relevant business case for data governance
• talk with business leadership
• design governance teams and projects
• sustain governance through measurements

• you depend on data to get your job done but are routinely burdened with poor quality data
• you are a business person who needs to take charge of data and information quality
• you have been designated as a data owner or data steward and need to learn what that means
• you are responsible to start or to grow a data governance program
• you are a data quality or data governance professional who needs to get business participation