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Blog: David Loshin« Performance and Time - Part 1 | Main | Everything in its Place » Data Governance vs. IT GovernanceI recently attended a conference on data governance at which the keynote speaker suggested that data governance is completely separate from IT governance. As both a software engineer and a data management consultant, I was not sure that I could agree with that notion, and judging by some of the reaction in the audience, some others did not agree either. The application framework is tightly coupled with the information used by the applications; implementation decisions made by the application designers have significant impact on the underlying data infrastructure. And lastly, the ability to establish a fundamental enterprise architecture that enables auditability (which is of particular interest in the compliance space) requires close alignment between the IT and the information teams.
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David - I agree with you. The data management and IT management should not be divided. There needs to be stronger collaboration and alignment. Not more walls.
Posted by: Ben Craigo | February 12, 2007 9:17 AM
David - I agree,the flaws in data quality are, in my experience, often due to the disconnect between data governance and IT governance. There has to be a marriage between who decides what defines a customer and who architects the customer domain, or, we inevitably end up with aberrations....but, whose aberrations are they with distinct governance?
Posted by: Francine Adams | March 23, 2007 5:45 PM
David, I guess it wouldn't be bad if it was separate AND equal. IT Governance has it's own control objective in the COBIT Framework. IBM recently came up with a service to peg a company's maturity level for data governance specifically. This seems promising.
Posted by: Jim Viveralli | May 3, 2007 10:03 AM
Actually, I started scanning through the COBIT framework and was impressed by its applicability to data as well. The fact that these approaches are suitable to both IT and data is good. However, IT is still the technical side while the data is an organization's asset. So where is the line?
Posted by: David Loshin | May 3, 2007 10:31 AM
Data Governance at my organization is closely tied in with IT Governance. From a practical perspective, we collaborate on all of the same projects and often call on each other b/c of how interrelated our work is.
Posted by: Michael | July 6, 2007 11:07 PM