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| October 2008 PROGRAM |
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| Title: | Data Governance |
| Date: | October 15, 2008
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM |
| Location: | Cargill Inc. |
| | Topic: | A Step-By-Step Approach to Data Governance & Aligning with Other Data Mgmt and Architecture Efforts |
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Data Governance |
| Presented By: | Gwen Thomas - The Data Governance Institute |
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When people say that Data Governance is both an art and a science, here's what they mean. The answer to the question "What does Data Governance do?" depends on whether your program is going to focus on Data Quality, Compliance, MDM, or many other types of efforts. The answer to the question "How does Data Governance operate?" depends on how it needs to align with existing and planned business, compliance, technology, and data management efforts. "Who should do what?" depends on choices you make as you put Data Governance into the context of your formal or informal Enterprise Architecture program and its Data Strategy.
Gwen Thomas, President and Founder of the Data Governance Institute, explains both the art and science behind fitting Data Governance into your current landscape. She'll set the stage by introducing the (free) DGI Data Governance Framework, steps to take as you're first introducing formal governance, and activities to avoid as you choose between 6 models of Data Stewardship. Then she'll concentrate on choices you'll need to make initially and revisit in years 2, 3, and 4 of a program as you work out how to align Data Governance and Stewardship with Risk & Compliance, Metadata Management, Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, and Data Integration.
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| Speaker Profile: | Gwen Thomas is Founder and President of The Data Governance Institute, which is the premier provider of in-depth, vendor-neutral information about – and assistance with – tools, techniques, models, and best practices for the governance/stewardship of data and information.
Gwen also serves as publisher of the web’s largest data governance resource, at www.datagovernance.com; The Data Governance & Stewardship Community of Practice, located at www.DataStewardship.com; SOX-online.com, the web’s largest collection of vendor-neutral Sarbanes-Oxley news and information; and the Master Catalog of Data Governance Software, at www.datagovernancesoftware.com.
Gwen has personally helped companies such as BankUnited, American Express, World Vision International, Washington Mutual Bank (WaMu), Sallie Mae, NDCHealth/Wolters Kluwer, Wachovia Bank, Disney, and Coors to build or mature their Data Governance and Stewardship programs.
Before governance got “hot” and she decided to focus entirely on data-related concerns, Gwen spent a dozen years working in the trenches and in management roles as a systems integration consultant and Knowledge Manager, helping large and mid-sized organizations in the areas of data strategy, data integration, Master Data cleansing/standardization, metadata collection/repository development, warehouses, search, portals, and content management. Prior to that she managed and governed content while serving as was a college teacher, a marketing/pr person, and a publisher of a literary magazine.
Gwen is a frequent presenter at industry events sponsored by DAMA, the Institutional Investor, IRM UK, Wilshire Conference, DebTech International, and others. She frequently contributes to IT and business publications and is also the author of the book Alpha Males and Data Disasters: The Case for Data Governance.
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