Data governance in practice

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 Data governance in practice
Terms of Reference
Describes the purpose,
authority and remit of the DG
Steering Group and the DG
Working group. The Terms of
Reference sets out the
responsibilities, operation, and
attendees of these groups.
Data Governance Steering
Group
The steering group manages
the running of the data
governance organisation,
provides direction to data
users, and sets the agenda for
the organisation’s Data
Strategy.
Organisational Model
An adaptable model is
required to align the DG
organisation to a number of
on-going programmes across
the organisation
Principles & Policies
The principles guide the
policies and decision making of
the DG Steering and Working
Groups, as well as providing
high-level focus for anyone
using data within the
organisation.
Standards
The standards define common
data entities, their attributes
and inter-relationships as well
as records of authority for
each data object and data
element.

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Processes
5 The processes show the steps
Data which need to be taken to
Terms of Governance Organisational Principles & achieve a range of every day
Reference Steering Group Model Policies interactions with data, range
from reacting to an incident

Framework
6 and fixing it to completing
compliance returns.
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The framework is the central
document that describes the
12 Framework

Materials
Training
other components and their
relationships to each other. Culture
The culture of the organisation
Roadmap
14 7 needs to drive the culture of
change and accountability.
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Roadmap
Ownership
The Roadmap provides a 8 A number of key roles are
medium to long term plan for
the data governance
10 required within the
organisation to properly
organisation to work towards,
keeping the programme
9 execute data governance
moving forwards

Training Materials Performance Management Reporting Pack Stakeholder Management

Training materials provide an
overview of data governance
and related issues to staff,
covering introductory topics
and the more advanced, and
including role ‘cheat sheets’.
Data governance principles
should form part of annual
objectives from teams through
to individuals at all levels of
the business.
The Reporting Pack is a key
element of DG. The steering
group should receive regular
progress and status reports.
Stakeholders need clear and
regular communications to
reinforce the data governance
message and keep them
engaged

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