All the regulations around data compliance and protection such as European Union’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, Australia’s Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) to Australia’s Privacy Act, and other similar regulations, force companies to go all into data governance to meet regulatory requirements. Besides regulatory compliance, companies are aware that they need to have a sound data governance framework if they want to have readily available, relevant and high-quality data for their projects.

When we talked to Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach, at last year’s Data 2020 Summit, we discovered that one of the most common challenges that firms come across when drafting a data governance policy is that they don’t know how much data governance is enough.

As Nicola Askham presented in her interview, some companies are too aspirational. They go from having no control over their data to wanting to have everything in place, which is a huge step to take.

While at the same time, there’s the opposite end of the extreme as well. Some people worry that if they make it too much hard work nobody will sign it off. So they include very little in their policy and end up not helping the organisation to mature in terms of their data governance.

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