Governance
Leadership for change, management for effectiveness, governance for stability.
Governance is an essential component of both data management and process management.
Governance is the set of data, process and metrics that, together, guarantee the consistency of our organization's product.
Implementing governance is complex since you will only be able to govern what is actually being done. We are all prone to wishful thinking and over-estimating our situation. This often produces difficulties when we try to govern a process that should exist and may, in fact, exist on paper but is not what is actually done.
Not only is there a minimum subset of definitions, relationships and processes required to produce a positive result, but they must be brought on-line in a certain order to avoid significant re-work. Best practices and books of guidance can only give broad-brush advice. The actual implementation of data management and process management, like the implementation of any enterprise initiative, must be tailored to fit the circumstances.
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