What is a Data Steward and Do You Need One?
Blog Administrator | Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Steward |
By Elliot King
The metaphor of “ownership” has become popular in organizations and their IT shops. Companies have “application owners” and projects that are “owned” by this or that group. So that raises the question, who “owns” your data?
The right answer is that nobody “owns” the data. Data is a resource that must be
shared across an organization. Data flows from the point of creation–perhaps
capturing contact information on a website or importing a third-party mailing
list–through staging, consumption, storage and archiving.… Read More