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Data Governance Operating Models
General MDM
The Same Fight
More governance policy will be enforced by the systems themselves. That will not end the argument about adoption, or simply move it upstream: it is the same argument about who fixes the record and who decides what it should be, held at the rule and the exception instead of in the meeting.
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Give the Council Something to Decide
A governance council is usually built on its charter. It lasts on two things the charter cannot supply: a room of people who can actually decide, and a steady supply of decisions it is required to make.
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Mastered by the Domain, Republished by the Hub
Federated or centralised is usually argued as a choice of where stewards sit. The better question is whose standard the hub is publishing: each domain masters its own, the hub republishes it, and when two domains will not agree, the column splits and the enterprise chooses.
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Who Owns the Data, Really? Whoever the Error Hurt
Data stewardship began with the people who noticed errors made somewhere else. Since then the fix has often gone first to whoever the damage landed on, and been pushed on when they could not finish it: that is the honest answer to who owns the data.
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