Our story: Implementation of our data governance program, Year One. We started with nothing and were thrust into evangelism, change management, literacy development, and technical implementation all at the same time. With a lot of hard work and a little luck, we achieved success, and, a year later, are still relatively immature but thriving.

Five key lessons learned are presented, and questions like the following are addressed:

1) How did we achieve buy-in? What part did change management play?
2) What kind of team did we build?
3) How did we balance strategy and tactics, growing the program vs. showing quick ROI and wins?

The presentation is not a data governance tutorial, a demo, a technical overview, a functional review of our system, or a marketing presentation for our vendor.

Speaker: Roy D Schmidt

Data Governance Program Manager
Envision Healthcare

Roy Schmidt is a process fanatic, the one who closes the feedback loop between suspect deliverables and line-of-business processes. This data governance evangelist works to listen and understand, build trust, establish credibility, and develop strong relationships with his team and internal customers. For fun, he pursues excellence in writing, running, and making music, and he lives a quiet life in Salem, Oregon, with his wife, no kids, and no pets.