Key Strategies to Sustain a Data Governance Program by Effectively Communicating Data Governance Value Through Business Success Story Realization

 Many organizations start a governance program on the right foot by tying business strategy with data strategy, followed by defining org structures, and then go about building data governance capabilities. But as initial momentum slows down business starts to lose interest since business value realization does not get highlighted. This presentation talks about strategies to effectively get business units to work hand in hand sharing business value from data governance capabilities turning business partners into data governance program advocates.

It’s vital to advertise process, technology, and data capability outcomes at scale. By that, I am referring to economies of scale, economies of scope, and finally economies of learning established by Data Governance program and harnessed by business.

As business unit customers advocate for Data Governance capabilities, next-generation capabilities will be more deeply connected for business use-cases eliminating funding obstacles on account of business value leading to DG program maturity.

• Economies of Scale: As Data Governance processes are established various business units will start to document Metadata, Lineage, develop Data Quality rules, document data issues, and identify and tag sensitive data. As such Data Governance capabilities will start to get used at scale.
• Economies of Scope: Single capability like ‘Establishing Data Lineage’ can serve more than one purpose. While it can trace where data is coming from and where it's going from the perspective of a critical report, it can also be used as an impact analysis capability from a data change management perspective.
• Economies of Learning: As all business units start to use data governance capabilities there will be an opportunity to establish ‘communities of practice’ leading to economies of learning.
• All the above strategies will keep Data Governance capabilities at the forefront from a business practitioner’s perspective leading to rich learnings and future build-out of data governance maturity.
• Like any product, Data Governance Products will get more customers as they hear from other customers the success stories and will deepen existing customers with new capabilities.

Speaker: Sarang S. Bapat

Sarang Bapat is a seasoned leader focused on solving business challenges through active listening and propose appropriate people, process, technology, and data solutions that meets the business need.

• More than 20 years of experience in information-based strategy, Data Management, Data Governance, and offshore Operations management in various fortune 500 companies.
• Experience in international business assignments with work and cultural exposure to USA and India.
• Served as a customer advisory board member for Adobe-Workfront.
• Held multiple leadership positions as an enterprise data leader, data governance technology head, and data management manager with rich data governance experience.
• Experience building multiple centers of excellence from data management tooling to data management operations to demand management tools to records management areas.
• Many years of experience working with data governance vendors led her to understand technical challenges while also sharing business needs with the vendors so new functionality gets built into data governance products.