A new article in Information Management gives you 4 recommendations on how to divide the responsibilities, when introducing a data governance model in a company where a strong system owner culture exists.

Thomas Ravn, Practice Director and Stuart Murdoch, Principal Consultant both from Platon A/S, has designed these recommendations inspired from a project at Novo Nordisk.

Studies show that the vast majority of large organizations across industries are embracing the concept of data governance as a mechanism to coordinate how shared data is defined, maintained and leveraged across the organization. The problem is that many data elements are used in and synchronized between multiple systems, a fact the system-centric ownership model often fails to address. To solve this dilemma, it’s critical that an alliance is forged between your system ownership organization and your data governance organization, where clear boundaries for decisions and responsibilities are defined.

Read the entire article here on information-management.com