October 2006 meeting reading guide
Theme: Data Stewardship and Governance ... four titles
Practical Data Stewardship Structures
by Diby Malakar
Introduction
Recent studies have indicated and have clearly proven that bad data costs money; results in poor and uninformed decision-making and eventually missed business opportunities. In recent times, companies have engaged resources to clean up their customer data to enable CRM-related initiatives but the focus has now shifted to data in other areas of the business, such as supply chain and finance, and to tackling what can seem like unyielding data quality problems in nearly every business domain. This article attempts to look at the Data Stewardship Program and provides an overview of how this could be implemented in an organization.
Ensuring Data Quality through Data Stewardship
by Claudia Imhoff
Summary: Who should be responsible for coordinating the effort made in defining, integrating, cleansing and synchronizing the data coming from the myriad operation systems throughout the corporation?
http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/dmreview/print_action.cfm?articleId=659
Data Stewardship in Action
by Don Carlson
Summary: Learn how data stewards enabled a major U.S. corporation to accomplish three goals: clean the data, establish processes to keep the data clean, and keep both the data and the process in a state of good configuration management.
http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/dmreview/print_action.cfm?articleId=5144
Data Steward Roles & Responsibilities
by Robert S. Seiner
If you define Data Stewardship the same way that I define Data Stewardship, then we are apt to agree that defining data steward roles and responsibilities is at the heart of best practices for implementing a successful data stewardship program.
http://www.tdan.com/i033fe01.htm
Discussion Areas:
- Data Stewardship Roles and Definitions
- Data Steward Skills
- Organizational Alignment
- Data Stewardship and the Link to Governance
- Data Steward Success Stories
- Data Steward Lessons Learned