Data Governance Best Practices

Business process and data management professionals recognize the business need for effective data governance and the value it can deliver. Yet data governance remains an immature and poorly understood competency within most organizations. The challenge for most organizations is to effectively scope, prioritize, and organize a data governance program that will be acceptable within the confines of an existing corporate culture. Calculating short-term data governance ROI is tricky, so you must deliver business value quickly to quiet the cynics and detractors looking to derail the effort before it begins.

This Forrester Teleconference provides insights on how to kick off your data governance program by identifying the most critical business processes and decisions that trusted data can optimize; defining the policies, business rules, and standards that will ensure trusted data; and delivering business value-oriented metrics that will justify the resource investments.

Agenda:

• Multiple inhibitors to data governance must be overcome.
• Recognizing the functional components of an effective data governance program.
• Technology enablers support, but don't solve, data governance.
• Best practices case study.
• Recommendations.