Data Governance is the structure and associated processes under which Data is managed, protected and made available for use, or in very simplistic terms; data is owned by the business, IT/Digital is tasked with looking after it, according to agreed rules

Authoring, deploying and maintaining systems and applications of any kind, is one level of complexity. But governing and managing data, migrating it from one place to another and guaranteeing its integrity and availability; is a far more complex undertaking

Nearly all data related projects either fail, or take far longer and cost a lot more than originally forecast, due solely to underestimating just how complex these projects can be. E.g.

Deploying a new data infrastructure can, to some degree, be planned and implemented in a matter of months; but ensuring that the data it holds is accurate, can be made available when needed, can be used by all staff to make good business decisions; requires a large effort, quite a lot of it manual in nature

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