http://blogs.gartner.com/kristin_moyer/2008/11/05/who-should-own-data-governance-oversight-take-our-survey%e2%80%a6/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blogs.gartner.com/kristin_moyer/2008/11/05/who-should-own-data-governance-oversight-take-our-survey%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Mary Knox Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:39:50 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/kristin_moyer/?p=300#comment-92 Thank you Juan and Sean for your responses. This really is a difficult issue. One other consideration is a pragmatic one -- who within the firm 1) is willing to accept oversight responsibility and dedicate significant effort to it, and 2) will be accepted as both competent (by both the business and technology communities) and as acting in the best interest of the firm (instead of the best interest of him/herself or the best interest of his/her business unit). Thank you Juan and Sean for your responses. This really is a difficult issue. One other consideration is a pragmatic one — who within the firm 1) is willing to accept oversight responsibility and dedicate significant effort to it, and 2) will be accepted as both competent (by both the business and technology communities) and as acting in the best interest of the firm (instead of the best interest of him/herself or the best interest of his/her business unit).

]]> http://blogs.gartner.com/kristin_moyer/2008/11/05/who-should-own-data-governance-oversight-take-our-survey%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Sean Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:15:31 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/kristin_moyer/?p=300#comment-88 "Data" Governance is a subset of "Corporate" Governance. Being a good "corporate citizen" means promoting a companies success while protecting it's assets. That said, The conservator of data or information, is the business. The data organizer and delivery enabler is IT. So it is hard to define who should own the oversight. If data is operational in nature (it's there and it's in use) whether for strategic or tactical purposes it should therefore be under the Chief Operating Officer. But the oversight committee should engage the business to be responsible in the oversight and should also engage IT to provide better services to improve oversight granularity while reducing the cost of the oversight. “Data” Governance is a subset of “Corporate” Governance. Being a good “corporate citizen” means promoting a companies success while protecting it’s assets. That said, The conservator of data or information, is the business. The data organizer and delivery enabler is IT. So it is hard to define who should own the oversight. If data is operational in nature (it’s there and it’s in use) whether for strategic or tactical purposes it should therefore be under the Chief Operating Officer. But the oversight committee should engage the business to be responsible in the oversight and should also engage IT to provide better services to improve oversight granularity while reducing the cost of the oversight.

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