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Who owns Master Data Management?

I spoke at the CDI Institute conference Monday and this question was on the minds of the attendees, many of whom were just starting off their MDM program.

Defining ownership as the entity that would actually come up with the rules for the sourcing, quality and presentment of the data, as opposed to the entity that would actually build the rules into the systems, my answer is Data Stewardship. Specifically, it's the business data stewards, who are representing the business rules to the IT/consulting build team for MDM. I have written extensively elsewhere about stewardship, but it is essential to MDM success. Hopefully those stewardship programs that were built for data warehousing can carry over to the MDM extensions many are now planning for their information management environment, as evidenced by the conversations I had on Monday.

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