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Author Harro Wiersma shares insights and knowledge regarding governance in business in the book “Don’t Screw Up Your Data Governance.”
THE SYNOPSIS
Most data governance programmes fail. Not because organisations don’t care about their data, but because they build governance without context — and governance without context is just bureaucracy.
If you’ve ever sat through a governance review wondering why the policies your team spent months writing aren’t changing anything on the ground, this book will tell you why. And more importantly, it will show you what to do instead.
Don’t Screw Up Your Data Governance introduces the Governance Context Foundation (GCF) — a practical framework that connects governance to the business decisions it’s supposed to support. Not more committees. Not more documentation. A system that captures the reasoning behind your data rules: why they exist, who depends on them, and what breaks when they’re violated.
THE REVIEW
In business, it is vitally important that a company with multiple divisions can communicate effectively so individual goals and work do not clash. The author’s detailed, straightforward writing helped readers understand this concept and explore how a company’s information and structure can fall apart if communication breaks down and organization fails.
The author strikes a good balance between concepts like integration and function in a teamwork and companywide frame of mind and the emergence of artificial intelligence and its role in company governance today. The way the author frames each chapter so that readers are able to practice and participate in each lesson at the end of each chapter makes this not only a good reference book, but something that is interactive and educates readers as they move along as well.
THE VERDICT
Insightful, engaging, and detailed, Author HARRO WIERSMA’s “Don’t Screw Up Your Data Governance” is a must-read non-fiction book on business, technology, and organizational skills. The simple breakdown of governance as a whole, and the implementation of artificial intelligence technology into the governance system the author has created in this book, will not only educate readers looking to get into this particular field, but will also allow readers to return to this topic for reference time and time again. If you haven’t yet, please be sure to grab your copy today!
Rating: 10/10
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For over 20 years, Harro has been helping many of the worlds largest organisations to release the value of their data, enabling business leaders to make strategic executive decisions. He has a natural ability to use divers and complex data sets to solve real-world business issues. He has built award-winning teams of experts that tackle complex data problems using the latest and greatest in data services.
Managing teams of talented data and strategy experts, as they engage with our stakeholders in every stage of their data journey. From data strategists who conceptualise the flow and use of data to data engineers who build diverse platform solutions to data scientists who perform robust analytics and extract insights.
His in-depth expertise with platform agnostic data strategy and business intelligence design & development coupled with his business and program management acumen, has consistently allowed him to deliver industry-leading solutions. Beyond these core expertises, Harro enjoys looking for creative solutions to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”
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