Spend more than a few minutes in the MDM, Reference Data, Data Management world and you’ll bump (or get slammed) into the need for Data Governance. In fact, managing data from a technical standpoint without it’s corresponding discipline of governance is of little consequence. An enterprise can’t “fix IT” or “manage IT” if there are no controls.
In the process of researching, educating or strategizing I have run across this resource by Gwen Thomas that I’ve referred to often and in this post wish to give credit and share with you in case it’s of use:
http://datagovernance.com/
Also, the glossary is excellent for covering terms in our specific area of interest.
This is an objective recommendation as I don’t know and haven’t met Gwen personally (yet) so this is a based on my personal use and the fit of the content provided.
It fits with my core principal that I.T. should provide the tools to allow “Business” to manage enterprise information. As a cross-functional team the entire organization’s data management can be improved.
