
Data Governance
How to Design, Deploy, and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program
- 3rd Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Authors: John Ladley, Amy Ladley
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 6 5 2 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 6 5 2 5 - 6
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- Incorporates industry changes, lessons learned, and new approaches
- Provides guidance on various approaches to data governance, to determine whether an organization should be low profile, central controlled, agile, or traditional
- Provides guidance on using technology and separating vendor hype from sincere delivery of necessary capabilities
- Offers readers insights into how their organizations can improve the value of their data, through data quality, data strategy, and data literacy
- Content Transformation Elements (Helpful Hints, Essential Questions, Case Studies, Key Concepts, Definitions, Something to Think About, and Key Points) are designed to help students understand important aspects of Data Governance and lead them to Foundational learning throughout each chapter of the text
2. Definitions and concepts
3. Overview of a data governance program
4. The data governance business case
5. Process overview for deploying data governance
6. Scope and initiation
7. Assess Overview Activity
8. Vision Overview Activity
9. Align and business value
10. Functional design
11. Governing framework design
12. Road map Overview Activity
13. Rollout and sustain
14. Data governance artifacts and tools
15. Final remarks
- Edition: 3
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Language: English
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John Ladley
John Ladley is one of the leading pioneers in the field of Data Governance and Enterprise Information Management. As a consultant, trainer, and author he has over 30 years of coal-face experience dealing with the people and challenges of putting data to work. John has worked with clients across a range of sectors, bringing pragmatic insights to the management and governance of data as an asset and the leadership of data-related organisation transformation. John is also a founder of the Data Leaders’ Organisation, a collaborative think-tank of industry experts working to promote good practices in data management. John’s books include two editions of Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy, and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program and Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset. John is a regular keynote speaker at data industry conferences worldwide.
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