Why should you care about data governance for your organization?Are you tired and frustrated of creating reports and sending to users only to find that your data is not accurate? Wouldn't it be nice to have confidence in your report data?
Data analysts, report builders, programmers, and IT developers work with organizational data daily. They understand the need for defined processes and structure to ensure consistency within the sphere of data integrity. The lack of documentation, uniform processes, and convention can lead to frustration and even apathy.
Don't wait for leadership to deliver these 'rules' for your data sandbox.
Start with your team and experience the benefits of data governance from the bottom-up.
Here are some of the early benefits that West Ada School District has experienced
- Assurance that our metrics are accurate
- Insight into what the most important metrics might truly be
- Greater confidence in the analytics that we provide to school district administration