There are different schools of thought about how data governance programs should be initiated, built, and managed. For example, “should data governance be a formal or informal function,” and “what is the proper mix of business and technical stakeholder representation,” and “are there separate organizations or a single (e.g., data governance board and data stewardship committee(s))?” The speaker will provide criteria for determining the best approach for implementing data governance at your organization, how to measure efficacy of data governance efforts, and common roadblocks to be aware of.

SPEAKER BIO

Peter Aiken, PhD is an acknowledged Data Management (DM) authority, an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, President of DAMA International, and Associate Director of the MIT International Society of Chief Data Officers. For more than 35 years, Peter has learned from working with hundreds of data management practices in 30 countries including some of the world’s most important. Among his 12 books are the first on CDOs (the case for data leadership), focusing on data monetization, on modern strategic data thinking and objectively specifying what it means to be data literate. International recognition has resulted in an intensive schedule of events worldwide. Peter also hosts the longest running data management webinar series hosted by our partners at Dataversity. Starting before Google, before data was big, and before data science, Peter has founded several organizations that have helped more than 200 organizations leverage data–specific savings have been measured at more than $1.5B USD. His latest is Anything Awesome.