Weird Lessons about Data Governance

Lessons I didn’t read in a Book of Knowledge

Data black markets within an organization drive data policy.

Any organization large enough to have a centralized data source is bound to have a data black market that has sprung up around that source. This is especially true if there aren’t meaningful governance strategies already in place.

Maybe it’s a ‘sideload’ of ‘just a quick analysis of recent trends’ that someone bumps up against the data warehouse data, but it will quickly…