While it is important to have a practical methodology for data governance, it is also critical to understand the personal, cultural, and political environment and consciously employing proven principles to enable success. This seminar will first talk about key steps of a data governance programs including how to:

• Develop and gain buy-in for a charter
• Set up an organizational structure and roles and responsibilities
• Gather requirements for data governance
• Identify issues
• Define data and rules
• Develop metrics and monitor data
• Define solutions including developing new policies, processes, and resolutions to issues

Then, the seminar will cover principles, tools, techniques and exercises regarding the human, cultural, behavioral, and political aspects of data governance. The instructor will share various insights, showing pitfalls of where data governance efforts can and have gone off course as well as sharing keys to successful data governance efforts.

There will be interactive exercises where participants can practice handling difficult issues that commonly arise by applying principles leading to effective data governance.

Participants of this seminar will gain:

• An understanding of how to set up the key activities for a data governance program.
• An understanding of political and cultural factors for which successful data governance teams need to be aware and prepared.
• Tools, principles and techniques to enable data governance such as keys in understanding motivations, facilitating a common vision, developing trust, and managing conflict.
• Stories of how culture and politics either killed or fostered data governance.
• Exercises allowing participants to practice overcoming challenges that data governance professionals often face.
• Education and experience in preparing for cultural and political challenges as well as applying powerful techniques for developing more effective environments, in this non-threatening classroom setting.