Data Governance is a constant work in progress. However, Stefania Olafsdottir, CEO at Avo, has identified 4 stages of maturity:
“I think we, as organizations typically go through stages of, data quality and data governance, we go from winging it where there is no data because we're just starting a product or there's no tracking or something into the wild west.
Where it's basically every team for themselves. So we have a lot of data and variants of all of the versions of the data some humans are able to use their own data, hopefully, but probably in most cases not, use other people's data. And from the wild west, we go into something like a centralized governance.
And in that state, we typically have a person or a team that ends up owning data governance - they saw that it's completely dysfunctional to have no standards if they are going to help teams do that. And then they graduate from that, centralized governance state to a, the utopian state, I would say, like the ultimate one is self serve governance.”
Which stage are you at?
This is a snippet from Who Should Own Data Governance? in which Stefania tackles the question of who should own data governance within a business and outlines what ownership can look like across different teams.
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