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Establish Effective Data Stewardship

Leverage your organization’s business subject matter experts to drive impactful data use and handling. 

  • Data stewardship is a critical function in modern data governance. Every data-driven firm needs stewards who can tackle data issues and challenges rapidly. Data stewards help to reach agreement on data definition, quality, and usage. They direct efforts aimed at completing metadata, improving data quality, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • Stewards must also provide recommendations regarding data access, security, distribution, retention, archiving, and disposal.

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Critical Insight

  • While the data steward role is crucial to establishing and sustaining effective governance of data, it is the role in the data governance operating structure that is often left ambiguous.
  • It is often perceived as requiring incremental IT skills and one with all new or unfamiliar functions.
  • In the ambition and haste to deliver on data governance, the various data governance role titles are communicated out to the wider organization, with data stewards especially left wondering: “Why am I being asked to be a data steward? What is expected of me? How will I succeed in this role?”

Impact and Result

To establish effective and impactful data stewardship:

  • Clearly articulate the data stewardship value proposition.
  • Formally design and detail the data steward role, including functions, capabilities, etc.
  • Set up your data stewards for success: having a detailed role definition on paper is certainly not enough. Ensure you go the extra mile to deliver relevant training such as data stewardship onboarding, awareness program, etc.

Establish Effective Data Stewardship Research & Tools

1. Establish Effective Data Stewardship Storyboard – Research that provides a step-by-step approach to aid in the successful establishment of data steward role.

Use this deck to establish a solid data governance foundation in your organization. Start by defining the value of data stewardship and data governance and demystifying the role.

2. Data Governance Role Accelerator Kit – A brief deck that defines the clear functions for different roles in data governance.

This brief guide outlines how to adapt a data governance organizational structure for your organization and defines the roles of data owner, data steward, and data custodian.


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Average Days Saved

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