Data Governance

Book description

This book is a guide to developing strategy and policy for data governance, in line with the developing ISO 38505 governance of data standards. It will assist an organisation wanting to become more of a data driven business by explaining how to assess the value, risks and constraints associated with collecting, using and distributing data.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. BCS, THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Figures and tables
  8. Authors
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Preface
  11. Introducing the terminology used in this book
  12. Introducing the authors
  13. Introducing the standards referred to in this book
  14. Navigating the book
  15. Planning your journey
  16. Part 1: The Requirement to Govern Data
    1. What is data?
    2. Data governance or data management?
  17. 1. Data Collection Through The Ages
    1. Census data
    2. Health data
    3. Traditional data-heavy industries
    4. Modern day data-enabled businesses
    5. Summary
  18. 2. Incentives and Disincentives for Collecting and Sharing Data
    1. A matter of trust
    2. Impact for directors
    3. Opportunities for the data-driven business
    4. Risk
    5. Regulation
    6. Summary
  19. 3. The Theory Behind Governing Data
    1. 38505-1 application of ISO/IEC 38500 to the governance of data
    2. 38505-2 implementing a data strategy
    3. Summary
  20. 4. Governing Data: Dealing With Connectivity
    1. Issues with a connected world
    2. Addressing issues of the connected world
    3. Summary
    4. Further reading
  21. Part 2: Data Accountability
    1. Quick recap
    2. Data accountability map points
  22. 5. Collect
    1. Value
    2. Risk
    3. Constraints
    4. Data collection: case study
    5. Comparison of the two cases
    6. Summary
  23. 6. Store
    1. Applying the principles of governance
    2. Summary
  24. 7. Decide
    1. The value of data
    2. Automated decision making
    3. The governance of decision making
    4. The data value chain
    5. Summary
  25. 8. Report
    1. Report: theory
    2. Report: practice
  26. 9. Distribute
    1. Models for distributing data
    2. Summary
  27. 10. Dispose
    1. Why bother?
    2. Candidates for data disposal
    3. Policy for data disposal
    4. Identification through the report activity
    5. External triggers for data disposal
    6. Permanent removal
    7. Archiving data
    8. Balancing value, risk, constraint
    9. Summary
  28. Afterword
  29. Appendix A Governing Data: Dealing With Regulations
    1. The challenge of data governance in complex regulated environments
    2. Key ontological concepts
    3. Steps required to build the map
    4. Using ontology to improve regulatory data governance
    5. Identifying the concepts to create a map
    6. Identifying the rules
    7. Identifying the roles
    8. Identifying the inconsistencies or gaps
    9. Development of a global vision of regulatory constraints
    10. Assessing the impact of legislative change
    11. Moving forward
  30. References
  31. Glossary
  32. Index
  33. Back Cover

Product information

  • Title: Data Governance
  • Author(s): Alison Holt, Benoit Aubert, David Sutton, Frédéric Gelissen, Alisdair McKenzie, Geoff Clarke, Rose Pan, Ming Li, Rohan Light, Beenish Saeed, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Abdelaziz Khadraoui
  • Release date: May 2021
  • Publisher(s): BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
  • ISBN: 9781780173771