Getting Started with Data Governance

Forty years ago, businesses employed people to make products and deliver services with highly tangible and visible processes and outcomes. Several sets of engineers or business analysts with years of tacit process knowledge cross-checked every business form before the information could cause any problem or error. In the last 40 years, however, enterprises have mixed complex information systems with refined processes and automation, employing people to make and manage things that are largely intangible, such as data.