Building a Data Governance Use Case to Get Budget and Buy-in

Read this eBook to learn how you can generate support, secure budget, and gather momentum to build a data governance framework.

The case for data governance

• Data today represents a valuable organizational asset and the key to business development and competitive differentiation.
• As organizations amass data, they must ensure it is accurate and reliable, and understand where it’s located, where it came from and how it’s used.
• Data governance is a strategy of people, processes and technology to mitigate risk and maximize data value.
• In the past, many organizations had little to no formalized governance. But companies today need an enterprise approach to ensure high quality, well managed data assets.
• Data governance is becoming an imperative; those without it will flounder or fail to capitalize on business opportunity.
• Governance needs to be business-driven and quality-focused to achieve critical enterprise objectives and deliver ROI.

But how do you generate support, secure budget and gather momentum to build a data governance framework?

You build a business case.