Building Communities of Stewardship Around Your Data - Step 5

We’ve been journeying through the recipe for Effective Data Governance Adoption in the last few weeks and sharing critical success factors to actualize and operationalize a Successful Data Governance. We’re very intentional with helping organizations harness the full potential in their data asset with Effective Data Governance.

This week we zeroed in on the life-wire of Data Governance Success – ‘Building Communities of Stewardship Around Our Data Domains’. We kicked off our conversation on Monday stepping through ‘the art’ of executing cultural transformation of governance around our data ecosystem through ‘Communitized Stewardship’. Using this as our anchor and driver for success.

We spent each day this week focusing and reflecting on practical steps for kicking off and building effective Stewardship Communities.

Today is our day 5 and we’re wrapping up our series on Building Communities of Stewardship around our Data Domains with one final bullet and an exclamation point to put it all into context with a few additional practical tips and guidelines for success.

Step 5. Establish Stewardship Meeting Cadence & Communication Process

Having Identified, Engaged and Formalized your Data Community leaders with the kickoff meeting as discussed in Step 4 yesterday: Here

You will need to formalize a rhythm around your community engagement. The next step before activating governance activities will be to work with each Data Community to define working group and meeting cadence for their Community. Communication and escalation paths will also need to be established and formalized for all to understand and adhere to. Everyone will need to understand the roadmap of execution and key deliverables expectations for their data community. The goal here is to set the right expectation at the onset of operationalizing your governance activities and allow each community member to take this back to their constituent and advocate the same. Your goal is to make them replicate themselves across their data communities. The ultimate goal of Data Governance adoption is to make every data citizen a steward of their enterprise data asset. Here are a few guidiance for this step:

Agree On Meeting Cadence

o  Recommend meetings at least two meetings a month to build momentum for the data Community members

o  Meeting should be centered around timing of key milestones & deliverables

o  Meetings should be working sessions requiring participation and problem solving

Agree On Communications Approach and Issues Management

o  Determine Communication Approach

o  Set up an email list for the Data Community

o  Set up SharePoint site or other collaborative platforms for the Data Community

o  Operationalize Issue Management Process (with help from Data Governance Of­fice)

o  Set up issue log and tracking process

Summarized goals for this final step are:

· To establish a working group ready for governance execution for each data community.

· To highlight & Identify key resources for successful delivery and execution in each community.

· To Define a workable procedure for each data community to adopt.

· To Set timeline expectations around key deliverables.

For more detail and help on some of the highlighted tips on Community of Stewardship formation around your Data value chain.

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