1. The document discusses strategies for removing friction from organizational data flow in large organizations. Exponential growth in data is creating challenges as data becomes more decentralized.
2. It argues that data should be viewed as a network of identities rather than a traditional hierarchical structure. Authority over data decisions needs to move closer to where information and knowledge resides.
3. For effective data governance, real customers and choices are needed. Data owners should have authority over decisions about their data domains while still relying on central services. Data ownership structures should be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.
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Why CxOs care about Data Governance; the roadblock to digital mastery
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Data Governance for the CxO in the Digital Era.
Strategies that remove friction from organizational data flow in large organisations with Coert du Plessis,
DataAlchemists, +61406313111 @coertdup
June 2020
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3. Exponential growth in processing = growth in data
Source:
IDC Research, sponsored by
Seagate
https://www.seagate.com/files/w
ww-content/our-
story/trends/files/idc-seagate-
dataage-whitepaper.pdf
Singularity Hubb (Ray Kurzweil/
Moore’s law)
https://singularityhub.com/2016/03/08/will-
the-end-of-moores-law-halt-computings-
exponential-rise/
IDC predicts that the collective sum of the world’s data will grow from 33 zettabytes this
year to a 175ZB by 2025, for a compounded annual growth rate of 61 percent.
Ray’s doubling of compute power/ $
Your list of $ budget demands
5. Big corporate isn’t ready for 2x data explosion
If you bravely lift the hood on large corporate data sourcing and integration today, it
looks like spaghetti Macgyvered together with a swiss army knife, wire and Blu
Tack.
7. API Economy is fundamental to automation – a network
API Economy:
From traditional data “stack” to data democracy
8. People Machine Gate Access Training
Data 1 Data A Data II Data 2F
Networks are built on identities – node by node
API Economy:
From traditional data “stack” to data democracy
10. So if the data is a network, how do we organise people?
11. So if the data is a network, how do we organise people?
Centralised teams Decentralised teams
12. What if we organised our people like our data, distributed?
Distributed teams
13. We are used to moving information to authority
Source: L. David Marquette,
Author of “Turn the ship around”
14. We are used to moving information to authority
Source: L. David Marquette,
Author of “Turn the ship around”
15. We need to move authority to where the information is
Decisions
16. … you lead by retaining the risk accountability
Decisions
Risk
17. Case study using some AI generated faces
Source: AI Generated faces
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Business
Analyst
Improvement
CIPO
Chief
Improve
ment
and
Projects
Officer
18. Case study using some AI generated faces
Source: AI Generated faces
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Business
Analyst
Improvement
CIPO
Chief
Improve
ment
and
Projects
Officer
Principal Data
Warehouse
19. Case study using some AI generated faces
Source: AI Generated faces
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Business
Analyst
Improvement
CIPO
Chief
Improve
ment
and
Projects
Officer
Principal Data
Warehouse
Procurement
Analyst
HR consultant
20. Case study using some AI generated faces
Source: AI Generated faces
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Business
Analyst
Improvement
CIPO
Chief
Improve
ment
and
Projects
Officer
Principal Data
Warehouse
CIO
Chief
Informati
on
Officer
Procurement
Analyst
CPO
Chief
Procure
ment
Officer
HR consultant
CPO
Chief
People
Officer
22. Do you mean authority to…
Yes!
Host data in the cloud?
Decide where they
spend money to improve
data quality?
23. Do you mean authority to…
Host data in the cloud?
Remove data?
Yes!
Decide where they
spend money to improve
data quality?
24. Do you mean authority to…
Decide where they
spend money to improve
data quality?
Host data in the cloud?
Remove data?
Yes!
Define
their own
data API /
Digital
Twin?
25. #3
Move the data authority
(decisions) to where the
knowledge (information) is
∝
26. So how does this work? Customers?
This node is reserved for a small g “god”
It is not IT, or Tech or info sys
These are not customers;
If they can’t buy from anywhere
else but the central god team
27. In a network, everyone is a customer, and a supplier
This is a data customer
This is a data customer
This is a data customer
33. Beware Conway's law
Source: Conway’s Law
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/
demystifying-conways-law
“Any organisation that designs a [data]
system will inevitably produce a design
whose structure is a copy of the
organization’s structure”
36. Briefly – Bringing this talk together through data owners
• Don’t get caught up in titles (custodians, stewards, managers, trustees)
– Figure out who is the Data Owners
• Data ownership is MECE! (Mutually Exclusive, Completely Exhaustive)
– Stacks like Russian dolls
– Can split hierarchy, or by region.
– Guaranteed to show org design gaps / grey areas of political risk
– 100% of data covered does not mean 100% of data is important data
• Authority flows down to knowledge
– Risk flows up to senior leaders
• Data Owners are not demi-gods
– They rely on services from Security, IT, Cost accounting and data
cleansing/analytics
• Data Owners are accountable for the data quality of their important data
A topic that is crucial to the automated and data future
BHP 1SAP chase.
Your budget is static or slowly linear in growth. You will NEVER have enough moneyThe real rub is my master data is just slow moving transaction data… my last name, my address, my gender… BHP a truck is not a truck, different TURBO, Tray
And someone has to decide which is important data.
Linked by identities – People, Machines and processes
Linked by identities – People, Machines and processes It is not Identity and Access Management – whilst they go well together, the one part is 100% a security job, and the other, is 100% a strategic organisation and data governance decision. Identity is so much more than a secure tool … The internet DNS is the identity management equivalent of your data…
Risk moves up. In fact, if you don’t know who owns data, just check who owns the risk. BHP had a reasonably well publicized issue with a 3rd party payroll provider mixing up a handful of payslips. That risk was born by the Chief People Officer.
Headcount report
Lower the friction, increase the speed of decisions and data use and lift the value and employee satisfaction.
This shot from Apollo 8, 1968 – Nature has no borders. Started the environmental movement and earth day…. Data is the same.
Erase the artificial organisational borders, and look at the substance… the ocean, the green the desert the mountains and the snow.
Russian dolls, by region or by hierarchy
If you don’t know who owns the data, just imagine who would own the catastrophic data exposure or error risk.
E.g. in BHP Engineering is centralised, but the reality is it is run regionally.